Daily News 2012-10-23

Title: Death after quadrivalent human papillomavirus (qHPV) vaccination: Causal or coincidental? by Lucija Tomljenovic University of British Columbia, Canada (pdf) Download Abstract & Biography

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccines as an Option for Preventing Cervical Malignancies: (How) Effective and Safe? by Tomljenovic L, Shaw CA, Spinosa JP.

Dachel Media Update: 10/23 - Age of Autism

What Is Causing Beta Amyloid Production In Alzheimer's And Autism? by Teresa Conrick - Age of Autism

Too Fast or Not Too Fast: The FDA's Approval of Merck's HPV Vaccine Gardasil. by Tomljenovic L, Shaw CA

The Greater Good Movie Science (pdf)

Vaccination proves key in preventing spread of flu, officials say

Catholic board decision on HPV vaccination is inadequate

Flu Shots For Healthcare Workers

Flu Vaccine Effective Against 4 Strains, Study Finds

San Antonio public health agencies offering vaccinations at polls

Primary care physicians miss hepatitis vaccine targets

HIV Finding Opens New Path For Vaccine Research

Antibodies kill 88% of HIV types – study

Next-generation vaccines -- eliminating the use of needles

5 flu vaccine myths dispelled - About a third of Canadian adults say they get flu vaccine

Sanofi SA (ADR) : Sanofi Pasteur Presents Phase III Data for Investigational Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine

Animal Health Group, Gates to Set Up Goat Plague Vaccine Bank

U.S. agency rejects using bonds to develop drugs for bioterrorism threats

Animal Health Group, Gates to Set Up Goat Plague Vaccine Bank

Records detail Mass. firm linked to meningitis

Students urged to get jab to protect against mumps

Steps taken in herpes prevention

Pharma Donations & The Chamber Of Commerce by Ed Silverman - Pharmalot

EMA wants to revise BVDV testing requirements for bovine serum - The EMA wants feedback on its plans to revise testing requirements for bovine serum used to manufacture biologics.

The “no debate” debate, briefly revisited

Family whooping cough shots may protect babies

NEWS SCAN: Coronavirus reporting complaint, NC fair E coli cases, 4-strain flu vaccine trials, Ebola in Chinese bats

Fungal meningitis outbreak cases top 300

Frequently Asked Questions for Patients: Multistate Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Investigation

Union cites possible ‘philosophical or religious objections’ as B.C. nurses balk at forced flu vaccinations

What Should Patients Do? - Find out if you received a potentially contaminated medication.

Flu and herd immunity: Getting the shot is as important for the community as for you

Flu season is upon us, but many of us skip vaccinations

Current Situation CDC Responds to Multistate Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

Multistate Fungal Meningitis Outbreak - Current Case Count

Sharp decline in families refusing polio drops

Meningitis vaccinations begin for Chilean children - Strain of meningitis W-135 found to be most lethal strain, especially among young children.

Are Your Kids Protected from HPV-related Cancers? - Protect your sons and daughters from cancer and other diseases caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) by getting them HPV vaccine. It takes 3 shots over 6 months to complete the series, so make sure your child gets all 3 doses.

Uptick in flu cases renews the call for vaccinations

Flu season under way, vaccinations encouraged

What does Osama bin Laden have to do with polio?

Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease. Since 1985 global incidents of polio have dramatically declined. So effective has the fight against polio been that, according to the nonprofit organization End Polio Now, the world is 99 ...
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Deseret News

Ruling Safeguards The Public Health

These parents, under the slogan "We The Parents," tried to fight a West Virginia state law that requires immunizations at various stages of a child's education in public schools. Those rules are developed by the Department of Health and Human Resources ...
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Recommended Immunization Schedule: What You Should Know ...

Although only one version of the immunization schedule is endorsed by the Centers ... A. Before a vaccine can be added to the immunization schedule, it must ...
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Absolute latest data on the fungal meningitis outbreak: Oct 22, 2012

On Sept 18, the first case of fungal meningitis was reported to the Tennessee Department of Health. The index, or first case, was a man in his 50's with a history of 8 days of headache and neck pain, nausea, malaise, fatigue and decreased appetite ...
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Influenza and pneumonia and pertussis - oh my!

This Halloween season, there is no need to be scared of ghosts and goblins. With an estimated 50,000 US adults dying each year, vaccine-preventable diseases prove to be much more frightening! Before taking children trick-or-treating, it is crucial that ...
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Suspected measles break out at Mpelembe Secondary School

... Jobs | Zambian Property |. Home » Health » Suspected measles break out at Mpelembe Secondary School. Suspected measles break out at Mpelembe Secondary School. TIME PUBLISHED - Monday, October 22, 2012, 4:56 am. 9 Comments; 1002 views ...
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Lusaka Times

Good news on HPV vaccine?

Good news on HPV vaccine? Exclusive: Joseph Farah cites myriad, dangerous side effects of Big Pharma-pushed shot. Published: 4 days ago. author-image ...
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Ebola outbreak in DR Congo stabilises

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo stabilises. Tuesday 23 October 2012 16:37. SAPA. There is no treatment or vaccine for Ebola, which kills between 25 and 90% of those who fall sick.(REUTERS) ... The ministry of health, the WHO, the Centers for Disease Control ...
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South African Broadcasting Corporation

Why can I get a shot here but not there?

During the swine flu surge in 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the pandemic vaccine for everyone 6 months of age or older. The following year, they also recommended the seasonal flu shot to the same broad range of ...
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Whooping Cough on the Rise: How to Protect Your Family

(StatePoint) Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly-contagious and vaccine-preventable disease that has made a startling comeback across the country. It is currently responsible for causing the worst epidemic the U.S. has seen in 50 years ...
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Study: HPV vaccine does not lead to increased sexual activity

In 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that all girls ages 11 to 12 receive the human papillomavirus vaccine. The American Academy of Pediatrics also recommends the HPV vaccine for ...
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2012 Annual Flu Vaccine Clinic Schedule Announced

According to Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), influenza is one of the leading causes of death in the nation among people in all age groups. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC recommend annual seasonal flu ...
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Over 100 Million Citizens At Risk of Yellow Fever Outbreak - Agency Warns

"We are sitting on a tinderbox," warned Prof Oyewale Tomori, chairman of Nigeria's Expert Review Committee in charge of polio eradication and routine immunisation. "If we have not done a mass vaccination campaign, it means we have a large number of ...
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NHS staff reminded to get immunised against flu

Letters have been sent to NHS staff highlighting evidence on the importance of immunisation, while NHS Employers is coordinating a flu fighter campaign in partnership with the Department of Health, professional bodies and trade unions. Estimates ...
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Despite decline in parental refusal, 0.5m children still miss out on polio

According to data jointly released by polio partners, the number of refusing families has dropped from 80,330 during the first national polio round held in January 2012 to 45,122 in October 2012, implying thereby that 35,208 families who had previously ...
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The Express Tribune

Profile | John Hawkes: Polio project generates Oscar buzz for actor

The Sessions has sparked Oscar conversation around Hawkes' performance for his portrayal of Mark O'Brien, a writer who contracted polio as a child, spent most of his days in an iron lung and died in 1999 at age 49. To become O'Brien, Hawkes had to mold ...
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India gearing up to be declared polio free by

New Delhi: Having made unprecedented progress in polio eradication, India is now gearing up to be declared polio free by 2014 by guarding itself against the import of polio virus from neighbouring countries and by boosting routine immunisation. Earlier ...
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Zee News

Thimerosal at Barefooters LibraryMessageID 1999206

Dissecting a Thimerosal Study (NaturalNews) They're at it again. The campaign to make people believe that vaccines and their preservative, thimerosal, ...
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No evidence taking HPV vaccine encourage's sexual activity for girls

The good news is that researchers have developed an HPV vaccine which can protect against several strains of the Human Papillomavirus including 90 percent of those which cause genital warts and 70 percent of those which cause cervical cancer.
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The Meningitis Outbreak: Don't Expect Miracles From the FDA

In one of this week's most anti-climatic news story, the Center for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally confirmed what everyone knew: The origin of the deadly meningitis outbreak was fungus found in steroid shots produced ...
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False meningitis scare at Michigan jail

Meningitis -- an inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord -- has been the subject of much attention recently because of an ongoing nationwide outbreak caused when mold contaminated a batch of injectable steroid medication ...
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Documents in Meningitis Case Show Complaints in 1999

The Massachusetts Department of Health released hundreds of pages of documents on Monday detailing a history of violations at the New England Compounding Center, whose tainted medicine has caused a nationwide meningitis outbreak. The documents ...
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297 infected in 16-state meningitis outbreak

Most of those infected have confirmed cases of fungal meningitis -- many from steroid injections used for back pain -- but the CDC notes three of the cases are linked to peripheral joint infections from shots given in joints such as the knees, ankles ...
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WHY? reveal new video for 'Bitter Thoughts'

Nipping at the heels of their eagerly devoured Sod in the Seed EP, Mumps, etc is a meticulous work of morbid fascination and offbeat romanticism. Though there is a mysterious sickness (perhaps of the mind) that lurks about these thirteen songs, one ...
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Good progress on new Metrolink line

Good progress is being made on the line, as demonstrated by the sight of the first tram crossing Oldham Mumps and travelling to the Derker stop as part of a thorough testing and commissioning process that is now under way. Oldham councillors have also ...
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Karen De Coster - Search Results for: gardasil

A new study came out this month proclaiming that all of the people who have died or become very ill from Gardasil can't possibly pinpoint Gardasil as the causal ...
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India to be declared polio free by 2014?

Warning to East Lancashire parents after outbreaks of mumps, measles, rubella ...

Measles cases in the North West have also risen from 59 to 224 and rubella from 14 to 22. Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at the HPA, said: “We have been very concerned about the continuing increase in whooping cough cases and related deaths.
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Local Rotary clubs mark World Polio Day Wednesday

World Polio Day is on Wednesday, Oct. 24 and the Rotary Club of White Rock - the oldest of the five clubs on the Peninsula - is calling on everyone to contribute to the The Pennies and More for Polio Initiative as part of Rotary's 27-year mission to ...
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Tireless vaccination on to keep India polio free

New Delhi : India will complete two years of polio-free status in another three months but there is no slackening of the relentless vaccination drive, including at the borders, experts say. "India continues to be zero-polio. This is an unprecedented ...
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What Is Causing Beta Amyloid Production In Alzheimer's And Autism?

Since we like to connect the accurate dots here at Age of Autism, it seemed relevant that those two factors, beta amyloid and antimicrobrial poperties, ...

HEALTH CARE: Public Health flu shot clinics begin this week

HEALTH CARE: Public Health flu shot clinics begin this week. NIAGARA – From Oct. 24 to Nov. 15, Niagara Region Public Health will hold community seasonal flu immunization clinics at locations across Niagara. Unless there is a medical reason not to, ...
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Bullet News Niagara

Medical Malpractice Lawyers in Michigan Create United States Steroid Injection ...

Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C. medical malpractice lawyers in Michigan create the "United States Steroid Injection Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Infographic” to display recent statistics of injury cases and deaths reported from meningitis linked to steroid ...
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Ten meningitis cases confirmed in Granite State

PORTSMOUTH — The unprecedented fungal meningitis outbreak that has claimed 23 lives nationally has led to 10 confirmed New Hampshire cases. New Hampshire Public Health Director Dr. Jose Montero said Monday the volume of cases has not changed ...
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Meningitis from tainted meds rare, but not unprecedented

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Monday a total of 294 cases of fungal meningitis plus three non-meningitis fungal infections of peripheral joints (such as knees and hips) in patients who had received injections of a steroid ...
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Records detail Mass. firm linked to meningitis

The outbreak of meningitis, an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, has sickened nearly 300 people, including 23 who died, in more than a dozen states. Each victim had received a steroid shot, mostly for back pain. Federal health ...
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Before meningitis outbreak, firm avoided sanctions

BOSTON (Reuters) - The pharmacy tied to a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak escaped harsh punishment from health regulators several times in the years leading up to a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak that has raised questions about oversight of the ...
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More than 1000 whooping cough cases in Colorado

There is an immunization available for pertussis. Health officials say with the number of cases growing, it's important that everyone is up-to-date on their whooping cough vaccinations. This includes childcare workers, healthcare workers, parents ...
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9NEWS.com

Mpelembe records new measles cases

The school recorded 49 cases of measles on Wednesday last week thus compelling management to prematurely close non-examination classes. Measles is an airborne disease caused by a virus and its symptoms includes coughing, sneezing, body rush, ...
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Whooping Cough on the Rise: How to Protect Your Family

It is currently responsible for causing the worst epidemic the U.S. has seen in 50 years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including 13 deaths. “Immunization is still the best way to help prevent the spread of ...
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John Hawkes: Hopeful, but Ready for Backlash

For his latest out-of-left-field role, the Oscar nominee stars in The Sessions, an indie dramedy in which he plays a polio survivor named Mark O'Brien who decides that he, at 38, wants to lose his virginity -- even if he is largely confined to life in ...
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Hollywood Reporter

Post polio sufferers desperate for funding help

Members of the Toowoomba Post-Polio Support Group are desperate for funding, including (back, from left) Les Harms, Deborah Khan, Margaret Brosnan, Jim Galletly, (front) Genevieve Payne, Lenor Galletly, Judy Rosenrauch and Doreen Whittaker.
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Whooping Cough on the Rise: How to Protect Your Family

Dachel Media Update: 10/19

“Casadevall and Caplan pointed to the 1998 study in Lancet by Andrew Wakefield temporarily linking childhood vaccines to autism — a study later retracted because it was found to be what another scientific journal called 'an elaborate fraud.' 'Think ...
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The rising tide of misconduct in science

INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS. Over a decade later, Andrew Wakefield, the doctor behind the study, was removed from the UK medical register after being found guilty of misconduct. Picture: Timothy Bernard. Related Stories. Is this the Armageddon virus?
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Independent Online

Sharp decline in families refusing polio drops

The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the Prime Minister's Polio Cell on Monday stated that vaccination teams across the country recorded a welcome decline in the number of families refusing polio drops in the latest door-to-door immunisation ...
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Veteran Columbus journalist Carroll Lisby dies

A few weeks after writing about the local reaction to the creation of the Salk polio vaccine, 24-year-old Columbus Ledger reporter Carroll Lisby began to feel ill. He, his wife and his doctor first thought it was the flu. But soon, Lisby began to have ...
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Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Polio epidemic started Kinsmen on a tradition of helping the hurting

The Kinsmen Foundation of B.C. has raised more than $50 million to buy equipment for people with physical disabilities in the past 60 years. This is the sort of fact routinely trotted out when anniversaries — such as the Kinsmen Foundation's 60th ...
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Indiana now has 40 confirmed meningitis cases

The Indiana State Department of Health today announced that two new cases of fungal meningitis have been confirmed, raising the total number of cases linked to injections of a recalled back pain medication to 40 in Indiana. Two deaths from the outbreak ...
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Examiner.com

Local hospitals educating patients on meningitis

This photo made available Oct. 9, 2012, shows vials of the injectable steroid product made by New England Compounding Center that's implicated in a fungal meningitis outbreak. (Minnesota Department of Health via The Associated Press). View full-size ...
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The Virginian-Pilot

Family: Meningitis victim grew increasingly worried about outbreak

The 78-year-old Ocala man had a spine operation a year ago. In August, he received an epidural shot to relieve his chronic back pain. Florida Department of Health officials say he was unknowingly injected with a suspect batch of a steroid, ...
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Records detail Mass. firm linked to meningitis

BOSTON (AP) — A congressional committee on Monday sought a decade's worth of records from a company at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak as new state documents detailed problems an outside firm hired to do an assessment found there in ...
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What's Going Around: Pertussis, common cold, allergies

Story Updated: Oct 22, 2012 at 7:00 PM CDT. A number of illnesses are going around central Nebraska. Dr. Janice Kutlek with the Grand Island Clinic says that Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is going around. A newborn baby less than a month old ...
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IDSA: School Vaccine Program Lowers Flu Rates, Absenteeism

... likely to acquire influenza. Karen K. Wong, M.D., from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and colleagues described the epidemiology of influenza-linked pediatric deaths across the 2004-2005 to 2011-2012 influenza seasons.
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Flu and herd immunity: Getting the shot is as important for the community as ...

"Herd immunity is the idea that if I'm the one cow who can't get vaccinated surrounded by all the other cows who did, then they can't give me anything," says Cindy Modie, supervisor of vaccine services at the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. "So I'm ...
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Plain Dealer

Flu Vaccines in Grade Schools Significantly Curb Illness

About half of all U.S. kids, ages six months to 18, now receive an annual flu vaccine. However in ... Flu is not just an inconvenience, adds Dr. Karen K. Wong, an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Volunteer polio vaccinator killed in Pakistan

Here is a statement from Rotary's International PolioPlus Committee Chair Robert S. Scott concerning a volunteer vaccinator who died during the recent National Immunization Days in Pakistan: “On behalf of Rotary's International PolioPlus Committee, I ...
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Rotary International

Fall in polio vaccination refusal cases in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has witnessed a sharp drop in the number of families refusing to get their children vaccinated against polio, officials said Monday, while lamenting that nearly half a million children were left unvaccinated. "The number of ...
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CU-Boulder discovery could lead to new treatments for Hepatitis B virus

While there is a Hepatitis vaccine available that has curbed infection rates in the United States, the virus remains a health threat in developing countries, said Xue, of CU's molecular, cellular and developmental biology department,. The World Health ...
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Primary care physicians miss hepatitis vaccine targets

By Kirsty Oswald, medwireNews Reporter. Primary care physicians are failing to meet guidelines for hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination in patients with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) infection, according to US research. The study ...
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Dr Andrew Wakefield- hero or villain? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

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Bill Gates Calls Andrew Wakefield a Fraud - YouTube

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Meningitis death toll from tainted steroids continues to climb

It all began after a man in his fifties with a history of back and joint pain arrived at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Complaining of head and neck pain, he died after a 22-day stay at the hospital. He was just the first of 23 ...
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Fungal meningitis clues may predict who gets sick

Some 14,000 patients who received tainted pain shots tied to a growing outbreak of fungal meningitis soon could have better clues about whether they're likely to get sick, health officials said. Of three lots of contaminated steroids linked to the ...
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Meningitis probe could hit hospital drug supplies: US

(Reuters) - The extended shutdown of a sister company of the pharmacy at the center of the deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak may exacerbate drug shortages for some hospitals and healthcare providers as the number of infection cases neared 300, U.S ...
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Babies born to HIV-positive mothers have increased risk for measles

A recently released study indicates that infants without HIV who are born to mothers with the virus need to be vaccinated against the measles as soon as possible. The research, published in the monthly journal Acta Paediatrica, found that, despite ...
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Vaccine News Daily (blog)

Say no to HPV vaccine

Children today are evidently being over-vaccinated as seen in the increases ... but this HPV vaccine, along with the flu shots which still contain mercury, ...

Yale “unraveling the genetic origins of autism” - Anne Dachel

How bad do the number have to get before we address autism as a national health emergency? Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism. Autism epidemic ...
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