Reuters – The Dutch government wants to sell 21 million unused H1N1 flu vaccine doses back to their manufacturers after they proved unnecessary and no other country wanted to buy them, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. Read article
Reuters – The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether a federal law protects vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits in state court seeking damages for alleged design defects. The high court agreed to hear a Pennsylvania case involving a lawsuit by the parents of a child who suffered seizures after her third dose of a diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine. They sued the vaccine manufacturer, Wyeth, which Pfizer Inc purchased last year. Read article
Daily Mail – Vaccines given to dogs are making them ill, a pet charity claimed yesterday. Profit-hungry drug companies and vets are ‘frightening’ dog owners into inoculating their pets more often than necessary, according to Canine Health Concern. Some puppies have developed conditions including autism and epilepsy after a raft of injections, it warns. Read Article
Ed. – Lyme Disease in dogs can be a very nasty, very debilitating condition. Canine Lyme Disease occurs in the US, Australia, parts of Europe, China and Japan. More in Source; Coronavirus Infection–Dogs: Causes vomiting and diarrhea; puppies are susceptible to fatalities. More in Source; bordetella = kennel cough
Washington Post — A government panel is now recommending that virtually all Americans get a flu shot each year, starting this fall. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had gradually been expanding its recommendation for flu shots – 85 percent of Americans were already included. Read Article
NY Times – Women older than 40 are unlikely to get much benefit from the vaccine for the virus that causes cervical cancer, a new study reports. The vaccine for human papillomavirus, or HPV, is recommended for women up to age 26 and girls as young as 9. To determine whether older women might be protected as well, the new study looked at patterns of HPV infection as women age, said Dr. Ana Cecilia Rodríguez Read article
Reuters – “The committee advised that it was premature to conclude that all parts of the world have experienced peak transmission of the H1N1 pandemic influenza and that additional time and information was needed to provide expert advice on the status of the pandemic,” WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said by e-mail. Read Article
Ed. – Remember WHO changed their definition of ‘pandemic’, so that it doesn’t quite mean the same thing (as the dictionary version)… not long before the swine flu broke out.
NY Times – Marco Torres stood on a busy road and waved an oversized yellow arrow with an unconventional message for a street marketing campaign: ”FREE TODAY: H1N1 Flu Shots for All.” Local health officials launched the human billboard campaign at a time when health departments around the country are going to great lengths to spread the word that swine flu vaccines are in abundant supply and available for free to anyone who wants one. Read Article
Reuters – An AIDS vaccine that appears to have worked at least partly in Thailand may only temporarily protect patients, with the effects starting to wane after a year or so, researchers reported on Thursday. That may explain why results of the experimental vaccine have been so difficult to interpret, said Dr. Nelson Michael, a colonel at the Walter Reed Army Research Institute of Research in Maryland, who helped lead the trial. Read Article
AP — The World Health Organization is recommending that swine flu be added to the regular flu vaccine next season. Read Article
Local.se – There is no evidence to support the contention that the influenza vaccine administered to the over 65s is of any more use than opening the windows and washing hands, a new study from the Cochrane Collaboration claims, according to a report in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper. The Cochrane Collaboration, an international not-for-profit organization providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care, has compiled data from 40 flu seasons worldwide. Read Article
PhysOrg.com – Evidence for the safety and efficacy of influenza vaccines in the over 65s is poor, despite the fact that vaccination has been recommended for the prevention of influenza in older people for the past 40 years. These are the conclusions of a new Cochrane Systematic Review. Adults aged 65 and over are some of the most vulnerable during influenza season and a priority for vaccination programmes. However, very few systematic reviews of the effectiveness of vaccines in this group have ever been carried out. Read Article
Daily Mail – Teenage girls are being rewarded with shopping vouchers for having the cervical cancer jab. Girls aged 16 to 18 are being given £45 of vouchers if they complete an inoculation course against the HPV virus, the sexually transmitted infection that causes 70 per cent of cervical tumours. Read Article
Ed. – Please read the comments for this article and access the link to Curezone for more information on what one of the key researchers said re the age that this innoculation wouldbe/was most effective.
Courier Post – New Jersey health officials say the country is due for a third wave of the pandemic flu and are reiterating their advice that immunization shots against regular influenza and H1N1 are the best protection against infection. You don’t want to get that,” said Bob Gogats, Burlington County Health Coordinator. “It makes you sick for quite awhile and immunization only takes a few minutes. Plus, it’s free. It doesn’t make any sense not to get it.” Read Article
Ed. – I’d like to know what evidence NJ Health Officials base this third wave on, since the CDC said it was ‘dying’ (viruses aren’t exactly alive). S-flu dying Although Anne Schuchat said that she thought the outbreak was not over, she was; “stressing that the number of affected cases has declined everywhere.” Both CDC and NJ county are still recommending vaccination. While the H1N1 2009 does cause severe reactions in some cases, so does the vaccine. You choose, but do gather information first.
Daily Telegraph – It’s been a good week for drug companies and an even better one for conspiracy theorists. Last Tuesday, angered by the bumper rise in profits being reported by vaccine manufacturers as the incidence of swine flu plummets, the former head of health at the Council for Europe accused the World Health Organization of “faking” the pandemic. Read Article
Ed. – Dr Wodarg would (hopefully) have been chosen for his intelligence and wisdom and ability to lead people; for the position of head of health at the Council for Europe. This man isn’t just any ‘conspiracy theorist’. He doesn’t seem to be benefiting from making this stance, which is widely unpopular, particularly among his peers. It makes sense that he has thought this through carefully and come to this conclusion, and is sharing that with the world – for the world’s benefit.
Toronto Sun – Just before Christmas, Stephanie Willette went from being a healthy nursing student to suddenly being a helpless patient paralyzed from the neck down with a tracheotomy so she could breathe. Today the 20-year-old is slowly recovering in a Kingston rehab hospital, still unable to sit up, but hoping that she’ll eventually walk again. Read Article
Ed. – Adjuvants are thought to be responsible for Guillian-Barre synddrome, as they are used in small quantaties (cheap) to enhance the immune response. The trouble seems to be when the immune response goes into hyperdrive in response to the adjuvant.
The Local.de – Medical experts warned of grave health danger to children on Monday following weekend reports that many important infant vaccinations have not been delivered to German hospitals since late January. “Particularly dangerous for infants are the Hib infections and whooping cough, which can cause difficult complications leading to death,” president of the BVKJ professional association of paediatricians Wolfram Hartmann said. Read Article
ScienceDaily — A new vaccine to prevent the deadly malaria infection has shown promise to protect the most vulnerable patients — young children — against the disease, according to an international team of researchers led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and the Malaria Research and Training Center at the University of Bamako in Mali, West Africa. Read Article
Ed. – It is not stated what the adjuvant ’system’ consists of – something that people deserve to know.
Xinhua — (Feb 5, 2010) U.S. health officials have asked parents to get their children under 10 years of age fully vaccinated against the A/H1N1 flu virus as another wave of strike might be coming soon. Hawaii state health department said on Tuesday that, in Hawaii and a number of other states, there are many children who have not received their second dose, and that there are still many children who have not been vaccinated against the A/H1N1 at all. Read article
Physorg.com – High-coverage human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations among adolescents and young women may result in a rapid reduction of genital warts, cervical cell abnormalities, and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, researchers report in a new study published online February 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Some of these genital abnormalities are precursors of cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancers. Read article
Ed. – HPV strains 16 and 18 account for more than 70% of cervical cancers. 4 things required for the effective reduction of the medical condtitions that this article talks about: 1. The conditions mentioned in this article are associated with the particular strains (there are over 100 strains of HPV) covered by the particular HPV vaccine used. 2. The vaccination is offered to women ages ~18+. 3. At the time of their first inoculation, they should test -ve for the presence of HPV in their system. 4. There are few adverse reactions to the vaccine. Sources: www.webmd.com and Curezone link
Healthday News — There is good news for people who have never had chickenpox or received the vaccine but are exposed to the virus: vaccination within five days of exposure can significantly reduce the risk of illness, or at least make it less severe, Spanish researchers say. The study, published in the January issue of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, found that out of 67 people who received the varicella zoster vaccine within five days of exposure to chickenpox, only 22 got sick. Read Article
Physorg.com – Investigators from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) have reported results of a clinical trial showing that a new vaccine against tuberculosis, Mycobacterium vaccae (MV), is effective in preventing tuberculosis in people with HIV infection. The DarDar Health Study, named for Dartmouth and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, found that MV immunization reduced the rate of definite tuberculosis by 39 percent among 2,000 HIV-infected patients in Tanzania. The study appears in the January 29, 2010 online issue of the journal AIDS, and it will be published in the March print issue of AIDS. Read Article
The Council of Europe is set to decide whether the World Health Organization colluded with drug companies to exaggerate the threat from swine flu. Propeller The WHO declared the disease a “pandemic”, allegedly after advice from doctors with close links to pharmaceutical companies. Read article
Ed. – Let’s not forget that they changed the (WHO) definition of Pandemic – and most of the world were still using the ‘old’ meaing.
ABC – Epidemiologists are warning Australians that a second wave of swine flu is likely to sweep through workplaces, homes and classrooms. They say it is only avoidable if people vaccinate themselves against the virus. Across the Northern Hemisphere the swine flu returned with the winter cold, and according to the World Health Organisation, it claimed thousands of lives. Read Article
Ed. – Please check out previous OYENews articles on the influenza vaccine and swine-flu.
Chicago Tribune – Serbia’s health officials say they will stop the purchase of swine flu vaccines from a Swiss pharmaceutical company because of the lack of demand. Read article
Daily Mail – So the Government, as the Daily Mail has revealed, is trying to get rid of £1billion-worth of unwanted swine flu vaccine – because the deadly epidemic they were promising us all last year never materialised. Several things are shocking about this revelation, not least the charge by the Council of Europe’s head of health that major drug companies might have leaned on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to stoke up last year’s scare by warning that swine flu could be a worldwide ‘pandemic’ killing tens of millions. Certainly, those companies have made vast fortunes out of selling the vaccines which, at our expense, are now having to be flogged off at give-away prices. Read Article
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