vaccine

This is an OP to a thread I've been participating in on Christian forums. It seems that a lot of fundamentalists are repeating the same tales told out of school about Gardasil that the anti-vaccine crowd tells about the rest of the vaccine regimine. (you can click on the thread title to view...

Vaccine on the way for AIDS-Like Pig Virus Hence characterizing this disease as AIDS-like in its effects. Amazingly a mere $70,000.00 research grant promises to have a vaccination study finished within the month! Pocket change for human medical research. Excerpted from...

There will be a debate between the author of Evidence of Harm and the author of the article Sticking Up for Thimerosal in Slate, whose book Vaccine will becoming early next year. The debate will be on Jan. 13 at 10 a.m. in the Price Center, University of California, San Diego. As you can...

Hmmmm, mercury in medicine? Who thought this was a good idea? An old article, but still relevant. A Capitol Hill Mystery: Who Aided Drug Maker? by Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — Lobbyists for Eli Lilly & Company, the pharmaceutical giant, did not have much luck when they made...

So another miniepidemic starts on the back of a refusal to have vaccine. This time it seems to be the old "Polio vaccine is a Western conspiracy to sterilise muslims" reason rather than the usual antivax woo nonsense seen in the west. I have an idea as to how we can get global vaccination rates...

I recognize that obesity is a huge (no pun intended) public health issue and that I should appreciate anything that might help. But there's just something that bugs me about a potential solution being vaccinations that allow people to eat whatever they want and not gain weight...

I'm engaged in a debate with a friend of mine. He believes that the polio epidemic declined on its own both in the United States and Europe before the introduction of either vaccine. I'm skeptical of this particular claim. Anyone know where to find some definitive statistics about polio rates?

From Merck..you know...one of those evil Big Pharma institutions. Gardasil. Where DO they come up with these names? Anyway, it is a vaccine from HPV, or the human papilloma virus. It is the main cause of cervical cancer. The thing is, you would have to vaccinate BEFORE people become sexually...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/10/06/cancer.vaccine.ap/index.html Impressive news from Merck. Large study...good. Placebo...good. The only thing that triggers my skepticism is that the prevention rate is amazingly high. 97%-100% Could this just be some research scientist trying...

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This is an excellent Article I just noticed on ArsTechnica recently. Good Work IMHO: http://arstechnica.com/columns/science/science-20050307.ars?27449

http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol364/iss9447/full/llan.364.9447.analysis_and_interpretation.31228.1

why can't we get drugs? The hypocritical Bush admin is trying to get flu vaccine from Canada and Germany - all while making it illegal to get drugs from Canada because of "safety" issues. How is this justified? If drugs from Canada are unsafe, wouldn't flu vaccines be unsafe too? Ah, but...

San Francisco Chronicle, Sun 24 Oct 2004 [edited] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/24/FLU.TMP rest of account is at above URL.

I'm just looking for opinions here. Does anyone else feel this is an issue? Will anyone who gets the flu before Nov. 2nd think it is? I have to wonder if this administration is so ill equipped to protect its citizens from a regularly scheduled event like flu season, how could it respond to a...

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=605679&section=news (snip) "The new technology involves drying the vaccine molecules and embedding them in tiny sugar beads or glass spheres. Each sphere is inert and absolutely stable without the need for refrigeration...

New Zealand is currently in the grip of a more than decade-long meningococcal B epidemic (MenB). There have been over 5300 cases reported and 218 deaths. For every 100 people who contract meningococcal disease: four will die 20 will be left with some degree of serious disability, such as brain...

A while back in a thread here, someone referred to an analysis of the VAERS reactions reported, showing that the vast majority were unrelated to vaccine. Does anyone have a link or reference for this study? I forget whether it referred to one vaccine (eg MMR) or was a general study.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=12&u=/nm/health_autism_dc Then my favorite part:

Measles deaths drop dramatically as vaccine reaches world's poorest children On a sidenote: In 1986, there were 23,490 reported cases of measles in Denmark. In 1987, kids began to be vaccinated routinely. In the first half of 2003 (most current figures), there were exactly 0 reported cases of...

Nigerian Muslims Bar Polio Vaccine, from CBS and AP. The country has a polio outbreak, and polio vaccine is available. But...

DAKAR, Senegal -- The World Health Organization will launch a massive immunization campaign Monday targeting 63 million children in about 10 African countries as a polio outbreak spreads from heavily Muslim northern Nigeria. Islamic leaders in the heart of the Nigerian outbreak say they will...

http://www.loper.org/~george/trends/2003/Jan/82.html Jeebus! "if they're clear spinally". The chirowhacks and their spinal path to health. More like path to death. "Western medicine" is now an imposed 'pagan' religion. These chiroquacks are a clear show of why chiropracy is based on an...

Since this topic is so topical, I thought I'd share the story of my cousin's wife. Beth fell ill while on holiday three or four years ago. Some sort of viral condition. The upshot was, ME. At one stage she was so weak her husband had to hand-feed her while she lay in bed. However, she has...

Now that Flu season is here, many people are getting vaccinated. (I know I got my shot earlier this month.) But, I do have a couple of questions: I know the vaccine only protects against a couple of strains of the flu (ones that researchers think will be the most wide spread.) However, I've...

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/ap20031122_841.html A recent outbreak of Hepatitis A traced to a CHi-Chi's restaurant in Pennsylvania, USA killed 3 people and sickened ~ 600 others. I'd like to point out that a vaccine for Hepatitis A is available.