From Kyodo News : TOKYO, Jun. 28, 2010 (Kyodo News International) — Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said Monday it has agreed with Swiss drug maker Novartis (NYSE:NVS) AG to cancel part of a deal for H1N1 influenza vaccine because of a larger-than-expected surplus. The cancellation agreement covers…
Children who get a combination of measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccines in one shot are at a slightly increased risk of getting a fever-related seizure, compared with children getting two separate shots – one containing measles, mumps and rubella and the another containing the chickenpox (varicella) vaccine, according…
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by Barbara Loe Fisher This past spring, the FDA took a hands-off approach to Merck’s admission that DNA from a lethal pig virus is contaminating doses of RotaTeq vaccine being swallowed by millions of newborn babies. 1 Now the agency responsible for making sure pharmaceutical products do not hurt…
UPDATE June 17 from the Times of India : ” The imported doses of the swine flu vaccine, specially procured by the Union government for doctors and paramedical staff, have found few takers in Maharashtra. Only 811 of the state’s 34,300 medical staff involved in treating H1N1 patients took…
From the Washington Post June 15: … Senior military and defense officials, none of whom was authorized to discuss relations with the White House, said congressional questions and a series of negative stories in the media have increased requests for explanations… Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a member of the House…
WHO has published a formal response on its website to many of the criticisms published in the BMJ and by the Council of Europe last week. A few important points: 1.
A new report by Harvard and London School of Economics authors on the Afghan conflict was discussed by BBC : Pakistani intelligence gives funding, training and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban on a scale much larger than previously thought, a report says. Taliban field commanders interviewed for the report suggested…
June 9 BMJ article by Luc Bonneux and Wim Van Damme: The decisions to stockpile antivirals and influenza vaccines to control avian flu (2005-6) and swine flu (2009) cost large amounts of money. 1 2 Both epidemic threats were mostly iatrogenic pandemics of panic, which caused little human suffering, but…
Here is the WHO report on current Swine Flu activity wordwide, and below is the CDC report for the US.
Original Source of Why is Swine Flu Still a Level 6 Pandemic?/ CDC