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Bioshield Too Little for Drug Industry

The Washington Post

by Michael Barbaro

July 16, 2011

Companies Want More Protection From Financial Loss

Project Bioshield, which sets aside $5.6 billion for the government to stockpile a medical arsenal against biological weapons, gives Human Genome Sciences exactly what it needs: a buyer.

Thimerosal Debate Could Affect Flu Shot Supply

First Coast News

by Melissa Ross

July 16, 2011

"She got nine shots on the same day," says Jennie. Hib, Hep, MMR, DTaP, I

All of Madison's shots contained the mercury-laced preservative, thimerosal. At the time, Jennie says, she did not even know what thimerosal was. Madison, they were told, suffered heavy metal toxicity from the thimerosal-containing vaccines she received, which they believe inflicted neurological damage.

Women offered MMR jab

IC Wales

by Lyndsay Moss

July 16, 2011

Welsh doctors have been told to give the MMR jab to women planning to start a family when supplies of the single rubella vaccine run out, it emerged today.

The move will anger campaigners against the triple vaccine who argue that the jab has caused problems such as autism, epilepsy and bowel problems in children.

US warns of flu vaccine shortage

The Boston Globe (MA)

by Lauran Neergaard

July 16, 2011

Disruptions cited if pandemic occurs

The United States may have to close schools, restrict travel, and ration scarce medications if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak, according to federal plans for the next pandemic.

Government slams Glaxo over vaccine ad

Taipei Times

by Joy Su

July 16, 2011

Health officials said that GlaxoSmithKline may be misleading.

The poster advertises a "four-in-one" vaccine that combines standarddiphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccines with one to protect againstHaemophilus b (Hib).

Behind the Media Blackout

No More Fake News

by Jon Rappoport

July 16, 2011

As readers know, I have been pressing hard to get some wider coverage of the REAL flu vaccine scandal of 2004:

At least 6 million does of contaminated Chiron flue vaccine were already shipped to US distributors' warehouses before the final safety tests were done and before the ban was laid on. CDC personnel and other law enforcement types have been enlisted to keep the lid on and keep the American people in the dark.

The Flu Scare Game

Reliable Answers.com

by John Keller

July 16, 2011

I always know when it's flu season. First, the media begins its usual role as hysterical government press secretary, uncritically trumpeting the same cooked numbers about the coming flu epidemic.

The steady drone of recent broadcasts, warn that the flu kills about 36,000 people every year in the United States.

Acambis smallpox vaccine blow

This is Money

by Jim Armitage

July 16, 2011

Acambis, the Cambridge-based drugs company that supplies the US government with smallpox vaccines to protect the population against biological attack, today suspended trials on the medicine after finding serious side-effects among some volunteers.

Now, intense monitoring has discovered that some of those used in the test suffered a major heart condition. The drug has not been given to anybody outside the trials.

Price of flu shot soars

The Saginaw News (MI)

by Jean Spenner

July 16, 2011

Fliers faxed to Saginaw's Saint Mary's hospital pharmacy department offering to sell flu vaccines at inflated prices are shocking, the department's leader says.

A vial of flu vaccine includes shots for 10 people and normally costs about $80 to $100. Fifty-five percent of the 650 pharmacists who responded to the survey reported contacts by "opportunistic vendors." More than 80 percent reported they were offered vaccine at more than four times market value. Nearly 20 percent were offered the vaccine at $800 or more.

No eradication of polio without inactivated vaccine, says expert

BMJ Publishing Group (India)

by Ganapati Mudur

July 16, 2011

India will have to abandon its traditional animosity to the inactivated injectible poliomyelitis vaccine to achieve complete eradication of polio, a leading public health expert has said.

Although the oral polio vaccine used in India and other developing countries will eliminate the wild poliovirus, the oral vaccine could itself be a source of future outbreaks of polio, said Dr Thekekarra Jacob John, former head of clinical virology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, in southern India.

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