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on (often behind the scenes) in the world of vaccination and health.
Quarantine gets power to forcibly give vaccines
23 June 2008
A bill to force travellers to take medication if they are at risk of spreading disease in Australia passed the Senate on Thursday. The Quarantine Amendment (National Health Security) Bill 2008 gives quarantine officers greater power to legally administer treatments to travellers even if they refuse.
CDC: Vaccine Study Design "Uninformative and Potentially Misleading"
23 June 2008
CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding has delivered a potentially explosive report to the powerful House Appropriations Committee, in which she admits to a startling string of errors in the design and methods used in the CDC's landmark 2003 study that found no link between mercury in vaccines and autism, ADHD, speech delay or tics. Gerberding was responding to a 2006 report from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which concluded that methodology such as that used in the CDC's flagship thimerosal safety study is riddled with "several areas of weaknesses" that combine to "reduce the usefulness" of using the data in such a way.
Meningitis C Vaccine may be causing Meningitis 'Super-Bugs' to emerge
16 June 2008
Scientists based in London's Imperial College have identified three strains
with heightened resistance to vaccine-triggered immune responses.
At present there are no reports of emerging vaccine-resistant meningitis C
in the community. However, experts fear if the strains get a foothold they
could undermine the vaccine, introduced into the UK in 1999.
23 Die - 123 are hospitalised after 'flu vaccination
16 June 2008
Twenty-three people have died in the past five years after a routine flu jab. They have died from heart attacks, blood infections and pneumonia after having routine flu jabs
Official figures show that a further 123 people given the winter vaccine suffered a suspected reaction so severe they were taken to hospital. Causes of death included heart attacks, blood infections and pneumonia, while asthma and kidney failure were among reported side-effects.
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