Stuff | 10 Jan 2016 The Ministry of Health is unfazed by questions being asked by a US congressional committee about whether current bird flu vaccines will be effective in the event of a pandemic. The ministry, which is going to tender for 300,000 doses of vaccine to fight the H5N1 bird flu influenza, says…
Vox | 8 Jan 2016 The world is closer than ever to eradicating polio, the horrible paralysis-inducing disease that primarily infects children. But the tail-end efforts are at risk from the very thing that made eradication programs a success: the vaccines themselves. “Sooner or later you get to the point — in theory you get…
The Guardian | 25 Dec 2015 Critics call for end to scheme designed to prevent tooth decay in children, saying its effectiveness remains unproved Water fluoridation has been in place in England for more than 40 years, and now covers about 6 million people. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls adding fluoride…
Newsmax | 18 Dec 2015 A New York appeals court court has overturned a Bloomberg-era regulation requiring all children to obtain a flu shot in order to attend NYC preschools, daycare centers, or Head Start programs. The rule, which aimed to increase flu vaccination among children 6-59 months of age, was set to go into…
Scoop | 16 Dec 2015 The US Government’s National Toxicology Program (NTP) is set to conduct new studies looking at fluoride’s adverse effects on the developing brain. The NTP is expected to ratify these studies within the coming months. Results could mean the end to fluoridation world-wide, and definitely should put a halt to any…
Jon Rappaport | 14 Dec 2015 Dear WaPo: I’ve got some ‘fringe’ for you right here It’s a terrible thing. Really. The pure and sanctified blood of mainstream news is now infected. Where is the protective vaccine? Quick, call the CDC. Washington Post, December 11, Paul Farhi, “Thanks to Trump, fringe news enters the mainstream”:…
The Melbourne Age | 14 Dec 2015 Better educated and wealthier Australians are the most skeptical of vaccines rather than the ‘alternative-hippy’ types as routinely stereotyped. Some of Melbourne’s wealthiest suburbs are among those with the lowest immunisation rates in the state, figures show. There is a cluster of bayside and inner-south suburbs, including South…
The Journal | 13 Dec 2015 ABBEY COLOHAN FROM Kells, county Meath, was 13 years old when she received the Gardasil HPV vaccine at her secondary school last year. She immediately had an adverse reaction to it. For over an hour, the teenage girl lay on a mat on the floor of the school while the…
Independent | 13 Dec 2015 Eighteen more teenage girls say they are suffering acute physical side-effects from the controversial HPV anti-cervical cancer vaccine administered in our schools. The girls’ parents came forward after the Sunday Independent revealed similar claims from 131 young women last weekend. The fresh allegations come as a senior doctor…
NL Times | 8 Dec 2015 Research done by the Dutch pharmacological vigilance center Lareb could neither prove or rule out a link between the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer and side effects suffered by girls who were vaccinated, RTL Nieuws reports. The National Institute for Public Health RIVM will now research whether complaints, such…