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Nasir denies supply of sub-standard polio vaccine

Pak Tribune (Islamabad)

July 16, 2011

Federal Health Minister, Nasir Khan has rejected the allegation as baseless regarding alleged supply of sub-standard polio vaccine in nationwide anti-polio campaign.

He also assured that government would not compromise on the quality of the vaccine.

Africa launches largest polio immunization campaign in its history

Onlypunjab.com (India)

July 16, 2011

One million polio vaccinators, 80 million children, 23 countries: Africa launches largest ever immunization campaign

Tens of thousands of traditional and religious leaders, school teachers, parents and Rotary club members will join nurses and a vast array of other volunteers and health workers to systematically go house-to-house and village-to-village, to hand-deliver the vaccine to every child under the age of five years.

Risky anti-diarrhea vaccine may be revived

MSNBC

July 16, 2011

Rotavirus shot was pulled off the market 5 years ago

At issue is rotavirus, an intestinal infection that kills 600,000 children worldwide each year. In the United States, 3 million children get rotavirus annually, but good medical care ensures only about 40 of them die. In developing countries, however, about one child in every 250 dies of rotavirus.

Mumps outbreak in England and Wales worst in a decade

Medical News Today

July 16, 2011

England and Wales are experiencing the most serious outbreak of mumps in nearly a decade - largely because young adults missed out on the MMR (mumps, measles and rubella) programme which began in 1988.

Figures from the Health Protection Agency show that confirmed cases of mumps more than tripled last year, from 497 in 2002 to 1529 cases in 2003. The trend is continuing to rise, with 578 cases reported in England and Wales during the first quarter of 2004.

Patience A Must For Flu Shots

KSL Newsradio 1160 (UT)

July 16, 2011

Utahns are seeing the lines forming as people try and locate a flu shot.

Utahns in high risk categories for the flu are finding themselves waiting in long lines to get a vaccine.

Smallpox vaccine on fast track

Guardian Unlimited (UK)

July 16, 2011

Vaccine maker Acambis has been granted fast-track status in the United States for a weakened smallpox vaccine, which is suitable for the elderly and infirm, the company said yesterday.

This will speed up development and approval of its MVA (modified vaccinia Ankara) vaccine in the US, bringing it neck-and-neck with Danish rival Bavarian Nordic, which gained the status for its weaker strength vaccine in July.

Vaccine Would Halt Nicotine's Pleasurable Effects

Click on Detroit (MI)

July 16, 2011

Vaccine Undergoing Human Trials

"These antibodies actually attach themselves to the nicotine molecules, and this complex is so large it can't pass through the blood/brain barrier, and so this nicotine cannot get into the brain," said Hatsukami, of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Business Wire (CA)

July 16, 2011

Work Begins on First-Ever Web-Based Child Immunization Registry in Orange County; Orange County is Only County in So. California Without a County-Wide Registry

An immunization registry is a web-enabled information system that functions as a source for providers of complete patient immunization histories and serves to assess patients' immunization needs, reminds patients, parents and providers when immunizations are due, and allows providers to view the patients' histories from any medical clinic facility.

WHO: Going into hospital far riskier than flying

therefusers.com

by The Refusers

July 22, 2011

This Reuters story (quoting the WHO) points that hospital patients have a 10% chance of receiving a medical error and a 1 in 300 chance of dying from it. Contrast that with the 1 in 10 million chance of dying in an air crash.

As potential patients of this dangerous system, we need to be aware of its risk and defend ourselves against it. I have huge respect for the human immune system and its ability to conquer most infections and challenges without medical assistance. Maximizing proper nutrition and minimizing junk processed food and chemical toxins is essential to stay out of the clutches of the dysfunctional medical apparatus.

270,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto

NHNE Pulse

by Danielle Magnuson

July 31, 2011

More than 270,000 organic farmers are taking on corporate agriculture giant Monsanto in a lawsuit filed March 30.

Led by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, the family farmers are fighting for the right to keep a portion of the world food supply organic - and preemptively protecting themselves from accusations of stealing genetically modified seeds that drift on to their pristine crop fields. Consumers are powerful. For more than a decade, a cultural shift has seen shoppers renounce the faster-fatter-bigger-cheaper mindset of factory farms, exposéd in the 2008 documentary Food, Inc.

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