Daily News 2012-09-25

Sandy's site Peanut Allergies Seen on the Rise – Dr. Lawrence B. Palevsky, M.D by The Refusers

Rally Friday: California AB2109 Will Take Away Healthcare Rights - (video) Age of Autism

Best of AofA: What's Behind Ben Goldacre? by John Stone - Age of Autism

Anthrax vaccine bid for Natob

Hearing set in challenge to W.Va. vaccination law

University stands by anti-vaccine student

FDA Gets New Authority Over Clinical Trial Reporting by Ed Silverman

Dr. Eisenstein, "Vaccine Choice For Your Family" - Don't Vaccinate Before You Educate 2012 October 4th 7PM

Alice Losasso: Flu vaccine is dangerous

Society: Children vulnerable without supplementary vaccines

Cuba Tests Prostate Cancer Vaccine

Bacteria replicate close to the physical limit of efficiency - Bacteria reproduce themselves rapidly — but could we make them faster still?

How Influenza Pandemics Occur (video)

Bat bite of man leads to calls for people to vaccinate indoor pets - Veterinarian recommends indoor pets be vaccinated

CSHB encourages swine workers to get flu vaccinations

Student “Flu Crew” brings no-cost flu vaccinations to the community

GM corn could soon be used to make drugs - Genetically modified corn could soon be used to mass-produce the enzymes used in rare-disease therapies, according to new research.

Today is Meningitis Awareness Day: Jessica Elkins untimely death continues to leave a mark on Athens community

NHS Tayside extends MMR vaccine campaign to under 24s - A health board is giving children and young people the chance to be vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella.

HPV Vaccine's Benefits Are Mainly Extracervical

UK agency picks name for new coronavirus isolate

NEWS SCAN: H1N1v in Ontario, drug-resistant TB terminology, funds for vaccine development

The Facts About the Flu Vaccine

Thousands Of Central Asian Sheep Killed By Dubious Vaccine

Bad science about GMOs: It reminds me of the antivaccine movement

Victories to Celebrate, a Vigil to Keep - Parentalrights.org

Phillip Morris Int'l licenses China flu vaccine

It's time to get your flu shot

People come up with all kinds of excuses to avoid getting the flu vaccine. “There are toxic levels of mercury in the vaccine.” Each year, thousands of ...

Pendle MP Andrew Stephenson keen to raise polio awareness

“The human cost of polio is unacceptable, and by raising awareness we can combat the spread of the disease, and wipe it out all together.” Polio was declared an emergency for global public health by the World Health Assembly in May this year. Email ...
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Group sues state over immunization requirements

Rocco S. Fucillo, the cabinet secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources; and Marian L. Swinker, the commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health, are the defendants named in the suit. Members of We the Parents are parents ...
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West Virginia Record

Flu clinic coming up in Truro

Dept. of Public Health's Immunization Program led to a reduced amount of flu vaccine for residents this year, the Truro Board of Health reports that it was able to purchase additional vaccine using insurance reimbursements for vaccine given to ...
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University stands by anti-vaccine student

Judy Wilyman has also linked autism with vaccines and recently questioned the value of the vaccine Gardasil in the fight against cervical cancer. The arts student's thesis, which she has been working on for more than four years, is titled "A critical ...
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20 Top-selling Vaccines -- H1 2012

Data on the biggest-selling vaccines helps us understand what's driving growth in the vaccines industry, and which companies are behind the wheel. Thanks in part to the adult influenza market and vaccines such as Gardasil and Prevnar, the global ...
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Free vaccines for Haj pilgrims

... from the healthcare facility after receiving the shots. Additionally, the pneumococcal vaccine is also recommended for individuals who are 65 years or older, those with weakened immune systems, and others suffering from chronic diseases like diabetes.
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Plano Family Shares Tragic Meningitis Story

PLANO (CBSDFW.COM) - Meningitis is just one in a long list of diseases that children and some adults must be vaccinated against in Texas. But many people do not know much about meningitis. A family in Plano shared their story with CBS 11 News, after ...
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Manton mum hopes to raise awareness of meningitis

She said: “My twin boys were just two when they were both admitted to hospital on the same day with meningitis, Johnny with meningococcal septicaemia and Alex with viral. “They were in isolation for 10 days and thankfully both recovered. They are now ...
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Rutland Times

Meningitis toddler Richard Hunter nominated for Community Champions award

Richard Hunter, who survived meningitis, with his mum Ashleigh. MENINGITIS survivor Richard Hunter, who battled back from the brink of death, has been nominated for an Evening Chronicle Community Champions award. Richard Hunter was 11 months old ...
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UK has repackaged and introduced second banned vaccine

See statement from the committee on safety of medicines (82Kb) for more details. The Mumps vaccine, which is cultured on dog kidney cells, has been advertised as available in two private clinics, although one no longer lists it on their website. Reply ...
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NHS Tayside extends MMR vaccine campaign to under 24s

A health board is giving children and young people the chance to be vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella. NHS Tayside has been offering the MMR vaccine to school pupils in S3 to S6, but it is now extending the campaign. Health officials said ...
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BBC News

Myth Buster Flu Vaccine

Myth: The flu vaccine can cause you to get the flu. False. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - since the flu vaccine does not contain a live virus it can't give you the flu but it can cause some side effects that may resemble ...
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Sinovac Biotech (SVA) To Supply Inactivated Hepatitis A Vaccine In Beijing ...

The company has been selected by the Beijing Health Bureau and the Shanghai Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Shanghai CDC) to supply Healive to the Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) for each city. The tenders awarded to Sinovac in ...
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Public Health Notes: Protect yourself from shingles

You can't completely prevent it, but you can receive a vaccine that will cut your chance of getting shingles by about half. The vaccine can also help reduce the severity of symptoms if you do get shingles. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
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St. Joseph, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Mishandles Mercury Waste

Boehringer generates mercury as part of its vaccine production process. The violations included failure to perform hazardous waste determinations on ...

Sinovac Awarded Tenders in Beijing and Shanghai to Supply Inactivated ...

Healive is the first inactivated hepatitis A vaccine developed, produced and marketed by a China-based manufacturer. Healive was launched by Sinovac in 2002 in China and is currently available in adult and pediatric dosage forms. In February 2008, the ...
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HPV Vaccine's Benefits Are Mainly Extracervical : Family Practice ...

Family Practice News Digital Network is the online destination and multimedia properties of Family Practice News, the independent news publication for family ...
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Does the hpv vaccine hurt? - Yahoo! Answers

i am getting the hpv vaccine (first dose) soon, and i am worried that it will hurt. ... no more than a standard needle, I would assume ...
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HPV Vaccine and Transgender Women

HPV Vaccine and Transgender Women fuckyeahsexeducation: “ plannedparenthood: “ Someone asked us: “ Hi! I was just wondering about the HPV vaccine ...
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Ban on Polio Vaccination in Tribal Areas

Emergence of 22 new polio cases in Pakistan, out of which, 50 per cent were reported from the country's northern tribal belt during the last eight months has sent shock waves to the national and international health experts, who were almost sure about ...
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Runner takes on 13 miles in dad's honour

His son, who lives in Exeter, Devon, ran the 13.1-mile distance on September 16 in just under two hours, raising £800 for Meningitis UK. Jeff was further inspired after a colleague's two-week-old son survived meningitis. He said: “It was so devastating ...
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Dr. Jacqueline Gerhart: Why does seventh grader need tetanus booster?

Both DTaP and Tdap contain inactivated forms of the toxins that are produced by the different bacteria that cause tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. "Inactivated" means the toxin no longer causes disease, but it does trigger our body to create immunity ...
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Rally Friday California AB2109 Will Take Away ... - Age of Autism

By Michelle Gutierrez AB2109 WILL TAKE AWAY OUR CALIFORNIAN RIGHTS Education. Everybody wants it, right? I ask because the legislators of California have ...
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Russian Lab Denies It's the Source of Sheep-Killing Vaccine

The director of a major Russian laboratory has denied his institute is the source of a smallpox vaccine that is thought to have wiped out thousands of sheep in Central Asia. Denis Kolbasov, who heads the Research Institute for Veterinary Virology and ...
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Help the Comox Valley Rotary Clubs eradicate polio

The three remaining polio-endemic countries are Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. The goal must be reached because if the campaign were to be abandoned, millions of children would be infected needlessly during the coming years. How can you help?
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Ride to end polio

For more than 20 years, Rotarians and their friends have worked tirelessly to keep our promise to the world's children to eradicate polio. We're almost there, but as in any race, the last mile is the hardest. On 17 November — to honor those who strive ...
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Rotary International (blog)

KP revisits immunisation plan: Focus to shift from polio to other diseases

PESHAWAR, Sept 24: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has planned to separate donor organisations from polio eradication campaigns in the province and use their funding to strengthen its programme of vaccination against eight childhood diseases, ...
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Thimerosal (mercury) free flu shots in the DC/Arlington/Tysons area?

I'm just into my second trimester, and looking for thimerosal free flu vaccines. Does anyone know of any clinics, or drugstores, that definitely offer this version?
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Recommendations for the pneumonia shot

ANSWER: The pneumonia shot is a vaccine for one kind of pneumonia, pneumococcal (NEW-moe-KOK-ul) pneumonia, the kind caused by the bacterium pneumococcus (NEW-moe-KOK-is). It's a very serious kind of pneumonia, one that often proves lethal ...
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Mum's brave battle against meningitis

A BRAVE meningitis survivor who was born and bred in Barrhead has told her story in the hope that her story can help people spot the symptoms before it is too late. Anne O'Donnell, 35, who was a percussionist for the famous Barrhead Burgh Band for 15 ...
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Persistent pertussis

Also called pertussis, whooping cough is treatable with antibiotics, though Papich said the biggest concern is secondary infections such as pneumonia.One in four infants with whooping cough gets pneumonia, Papich said. And about two-thirds will have ...
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Measles Outbreak in Hudson Valley

The New York State Health Department was of the view that measles vaccine is one of the important vaccines, and then also it has been found that people are not taking the matter seriously. The department officials further asserted that the children ...
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TopNews Arab Emirates

Successful measles immunisation exercise

THAT the recently-ended national measles immunisation was among the most successful vaccination exercises ever undertaken in our country is beyond dispute. If looked at from the numbers of children below age 15 who turned up for vaccines across the ...
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Officials monitor New Paltz school for measles

NEW PALTZ — More than half the students enrolled at the Mountain Laurel Waldorf School were told to remain home Friday after a fourth-grade boy there tested positive for measles. Eighty of the private grade school's 145 students were sent home, said ...
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Profession backs Guild vax proposals

The Australian Pharmacy Liaison Forum (APLF) has backed calls by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia for community pharmacists to provide immunisation services in line with those already offered overseas. The APLF announced their support for the ...
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Leveraging child health: 12 more polio refusal cases surface in Mohmand

GHALLANAI: At least 12 anti-polio vaccination refusal cases were reported in Prang Ghar tehsil, Mohmand Agency after the immunisation drive ended on September 22. The tribesmen had earlier decided in a jirga that they would refuse the vaccinations to ...
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The Express Tribune

WHO pledges to ensure direct payment to polio vaccinators

PESHAWAR: In response to reports about the alleged corruption in the polio programme in different parts of the country through the use of fake Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs), the World Health Organisation (WHO) has pledged it will ensure ...
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Best of AofA: What's Behind Ben Goldacre?

Ben Goldacre's column which started in 2003 has featured his largely epidemiological approach to health issues, most prominently MMR and autism.

Society: Children vulnerable without supplementary vaccines

Certain vulnerable infectious diseases among children, including chicken pox, influenza, hepatitis A and pneumococcal diseases, can be prevented through the catch-up vaccine scheme, it said. The president of the society, Chiu Cheung-shing, said, "The ...
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Savvy Senior: Vaccination options for seniors this flu season

The other important vaccination the CDC recommends to seniors -- especially this time of year -- is the pneumococcal vaccine for pneumonia and meningitis. Pneumococcal diseases hospitalize around 300,000 U.S. seniors each year, and kills around 5,000.
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Whooping cough on comeback

Whooping cough — or pertussis — is an upper respiratory infection that manifests with uncontrollable, violent coughing that can make breathing difficult. When an infected person sneezes or coughs, tiny droplets containing the bacteria move through ...
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Measles: make sure you are immunised before travelling overseas

If you travel often, you might want to check that you and your family have been immunised against measles. The disease might be under control in Hong Kong but, since 2009, outbreaks have been reported in many other parts of the world. In Hong Kong ...
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More kids getting vaccinated

State health officials reported Friday that Indiana is one of only three states in the nation with teen vaccine rates higher than 90 percent. The Centers for Disease Control says 92 percent of teens in the state, according to 2011 data, have been ...
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Donohue: Recommendations for the pneumonia shot

These directions were formulated by a board of vaccine experts and are the ones that are promulgated by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Any changes will be passed to the public by this agency. I will confuse you with additional information.
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OSU researchers working on vaccine to rid belly fat

COLUMBUS -- The Centers for Disease Control predicts 42 percent of Americans will be obese by 2030 and just recently, two new fat fighting diet pills hit the market, but scientists at Ohio State University are working on a revolutionary way to melt ...
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Record outbreak of whooping cough grows

The United States is experiencing the worst whooping cough, or pertussis, outbreak in modern times. The previous record, set in 2010, has been shattered as the country has seen 32,131 cases reported through September 15. The old record was nearly ...
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Mayfield School District student battles Pertussis

MAYFIELD - A student in the Mayfield School District is battling whooping cough, also known as Pertussis. The school district began notifying parents on Friday. The student attends the Junior-Senior High school. This is the latest case of whooping ...
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Two new polio cases brings total to 34

The polio virus was detected in two-year-old Nisa, a resident of village Muliano Koruna of Bajaur Agency, while another case surfaced in Karak after 15 years of being polio-free, compelling the health department to launch an emergency anti-polio drive ...
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The Express Tribune

Letters: Fight polio, farm benefits, Asian trade and butts on the beach

Many Canadians are old enough to remember the horror of polio. In the1950s and '60s, polio killed thousands of children and left countless others living in iron lungs or with life-long paralysis. With the development of effective vaccines, we thought ...
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SIAD in high-risk areas to be launched today Confirmed polio case still ...

The district health department is launching a three-day anti-polio Short Interval Additional Dose (SIAD) campaign in as many as over 13 selective union councils of town from Tuesday (today) to administer anti-polio drops to children below five years of ...
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50 years ago: Harford begins polio vaccine push

A mass vaccination against polio began this week in Harford County schools and churches. The Type 2 vaccine would be given out immediately and the Type 3 vaccine would have to wait until November. The County Health Department urged everyone over ...
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EPA Fines Boehringer Ingelheim for Mercury Handling Violation

Boehringer Ingelheim will pay more than $68000 for mishandling mercury waste in St. ... Boehringer uses mercury as part of its vaccine production process.

Mercury News editorial: Health workers should embrace getting a ...

Influenza is one of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States, killing more than 35000 every year and sending another 250000 to the hospital.

UAMS Enrolling Women in HPV Vaccine Clinical Trial

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock is enrolling women for its first phase of clinical testing of a vaccine that could prevent cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). Developed by UAMS' Mayumi Nakagawa, M.D., ...
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Hear WHY's Kaleidoscopic Folk-Rap Opus 'Mumps, etc.'

So writes WHY? main man Yoni Wolf to SPIN whilst explaining the themes of his band's new long-player, Mumps, etc. It's fair to say there's a bit of sickness running through the Cincinnati band's aptly titled fifth album, though it's more of the variety ...
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SPIN

HPV Vaccine's Benefits Are Mainly Extracervical

Indeed, one-third of all HPV-related cancers occur in men, not in women, which is one reason that last year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended routine HPV vaccination for 11- to ...
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