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7/31/2010 Flu jab linked to fits in under fives: officials
GPs have been told not to use a particular flu jab on 110,000 children under five after it was linked with a tenfold increase in fits, it can be revealed.

Doctors should stock alternative vaccines for under fives who are due to have the seasonal flu vaccine this winter, a letter from the head of immunisation at the Department of Health has said. The action is being taken as rate of convulsions caused by high fever among children in Australia given the jab was ten times higher than normal. Up to one in 100 children given the jab, made in Australia by CSL and marketed in the UK by Pfizer, suffered febrile convulsions in the following hours and days. It is not known what is causing the problem and no other flu vaccines have been linked to an increased risk of fits. Adults given the vaccine do not appear to have been affected. Children under five are only routinely vaccinated against seasonal flu if they are in designated 'risk groups' because they have chronic asthma, have been admitted to hospital with a respiratory infection previously or have other long-term conditions which means they would be particularly badly affected if they caught flu. (London Telegraph)
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posted: 5/12/11                   0       1
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5/4/2010 Chernobyl Death Toll: 4,000 or 1 Million?
Last week, a few alternative and environmental news outlets drew attention to a newly published science book that put the cumulative death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident at more than a million—a story that had particular resonance on the 24th anniversary of the reactor meltdown, the book’s publication date. But the story did not bleed out into the mainstream media, and even the progressive website Alternet seemed suspicious, calling the 1 million estimate an “astounding allegation” in its headline. The number is dramatically higher than the estimate of 4,000 deaths presented in a 2005 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Development Program—a figure that has often been criticized as being far too low and influenced by the IAEA’s pro-nuclear agenda. (UTNE Reader)
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posted: 4/26/11                   0       1
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2/22/2010 Poland Says “No” to H1N1 Vaccine
Of the world’s 193 recognized sovereign states, only Poland refused the H1N1 vaccine because of safety fears and distrust of the pharmaceutical companies producing the injections. The decision by Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Health Minister Ewa Kopacz had broad public support, even though Poland has reported 145 deaths from H1N1 flu as of mid-January. Poles saw the vaccine rejection as a praiseworthy act of defiance against pharmaceutical manufacturers, a sentiment bolstered by a growing anti-vaccine movement. “We are making this decision only in the interest of the Polish patient and the taxpayer,” Tusk said. “We will not take part because it’s not honest and it’s not safe for the patient.” The anti-vaccine movement claims that the H1N1 inoculation is untested or contains unsafe ingredients, such as the preservative thimerosal. The World Health Organization disagrees and points out that more than 150 million people in 40 nations have been vaccinated and suffered no abnormal or dangerous reactions. (Alter Group)
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posted: 10/7/10                   0       3
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keywords: Andrew Mcmichael, Barack Obama, Big Pharma, Donald Tusk, Ewa Kopacz, H1N1, Janusz Kochanowski, Oxford University, Poland, Vaccines, World Health Organization Add New Keyword To Link



1/20/2010 H1N1 swine flu hoax falls apart at the seams
The great swine flu hoax of 2009 is now falling apart at the seams as one country after another unloads hundreds of millions of doses of unused swine flu vaccines. No informed person wants the injection anymore, and the entire fear-based campaign to promote the vaccines has now been exposed as outright quackery and propaganda. Even doctors are now calling the pandemic a complete hoax. As reported on FoxNews, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, a leading health authority in Europe, says that drug companies "organized a 'campaign of panic' to put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic. He believes it is 'one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century,' and he has called for an inquiry." (Natural News)
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posted: 9/21/10                   0       1
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10/25/2008 We Need a Bank Of the World
The financial crisis is global, and only an international central bank can deal with it

If George W. Bush's upcoming global summit on how to fix the world's broken financial system—an event proposed by several European presidents and prime ministers—is to be a serious effort, the leaders should begin laying the groundwork for establishing a global central bank.

Had it existed, a global central bank would have acted without the air of panic that has been exhibited by national central banks and finance ministries in this meltdown. Ideally, it would have gathered its governing board well in advance of a financial blowup to execute a coordinated rescue and global-stimulus plan, part of what should be its ongoing role of preparing for crises. It would be hard to overestimate the political pushback that any official proposal for a global central bank would draw from various constituencies, most especially within the United States. Among their many charges, critics will protest the establishment of "world government." But we have a World Trade Organization with legally binding powers over trade disputes. We have a World Health Organization for communicable disease with the ability to quarantine entire countries. And a World Court functions today that has considerable legal and moral clout. No one should want too much globally centralized oversight. But the world's gathering misery shows that too little leadership from the center can be equally dangerous. The November summit itself won't solve anything, but if it gave instructions to finance ministers and central bankers to explore what a new central bank could do, with a deadline to come back with concrete ideas shortly after a new U.S. president is inaugurated, it will have made real progress on one of the great problems of our times. (Newsweek)
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posted: 5/4/09                   2       14
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5/14/2007 Amid bird flu vaccine debate, scientists aren't sure of protective dose
Concerns about the developing world's access to affordable pandemic vaccines took centre stage Monday at the World Health Organization's annual general meeting, the World Health Assembly. But as global health leaders struggle to ensure pandemic vaccines won't just be a tool for wealthy countries, influenza scientists admit they face an enormous conundrum, one that could stand in the way of efforts to transform vaccines for the few into vaccines for the many. Simply put, scientists can't be certain how much vaccine is needed to protect people against novel influenza viruses such as H5N1 avian flu, because they don't know what the immune system of a person protected against a new flu strain would look like. Sure, they can observe whether immunization with H5N1 vaccine produces certain antibodies and to what levels the antibodies rise, but they have no way of gauging how much protection those antibodies will provide if the person is exposed to the virus. (CBC)
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posted: 9/19/11                   0       0
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keywords: Avian Flu, Food And Drug Administration, H1N1, H3n2, H5N1, H5n3, Health Care, Influenza, Jesse Goodman, John Treanor, Pandemic, Robert Webster, St. Jude Children's Hospital, University Of Rochester, Vaccines, World Health Organization Add New Keyword To Link



5/8/2007 Canada raising limits on pesticide residues: Think those grapes look suspiciously dusty? Better break out the veggie-scrubbers: Canada is set to raise its limits on pesticide residues on fruit and vegetables for hundreds of products.
The move is part of an effort to harmonize Canadian pesticide rules with those of the United States, which allows higher residue levels for 40 per cent of the pesticides it regulates. Differences in residue limits, which apply both to domestic and imported food, pose a potential "trade irritant," said Richard Aucoin, chief registrar of the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, which sets Canada's pesticide rules. However, Canada will only raise its limits "where this poses no risks," he stressed. U.S. pesticide residue limits are often higher because their warmer climate means they are plagued by more pests, Aucoin said. Canadian caps are higher in only 10 per cent of cases, he explained, adding these may be lowered under the harmonization plan. Aucoin said Canada won't be raising its limits for all of the cases where its rules are stricter, but "will likely be asked to raise them" for cases now being identified as priorities by growers. (Ottawa Citizen)
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posted: 12/2/10                   0       2
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keywords: Australia, Canada, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Cherries, David Boyd, David Suzuki Foundation, European Union, Indonesia, Lettuce, Lindane, Methamidophos, Methoxychlor, North American Free Trade Agreement, Permethrin, Pesticides, Pineapples, Richard Aucoin, Security And Prosperity Partnership Of North America, Spinach, United Kingdom, United States, Vinclozolin, World Health Organization Add New Keyword To Link



4/20/2007 Millions in Iraq to get MMR jab -- A major immunisation campaign is to take place in Iraq in a bid to prevent an outbreak of measles.
The World Health Organization and Unicef are overseeing the work of 8,000 volunteers who aim to give up to 3.9 million children the MMR vaccine. The children, aged one to five, have missed out on their routine jabs because of the instability in Iraq. Health experts warn measles could kill up to 10% of infected children if an epidemic took hold. While measles in countries like the UK is often perceived as a relatively harmless childhood illness, it kills more worldwide each year than any other disease which can be prevented by vaccination. Iraq's Ministry of Health is organising the two-week MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) immunisation campaign, which is also being funded by the European Commission. (BBC)
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posted: 9/19/11                   0       0
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keywords: Anbar, Baghdad, Diyala, Epidemic, European Commission, Iraq, Iraqi Ministry Of Health, Mmr, Naeema Al-ghasser, Roger Wright, Unicef, United States, Vaccines, World Health Organization Add New Keyword To Link



2/1/2007 'Anti-Aids gel' trial is stopped -- Clinical trials of a new drug designed to help prevent women contracting the Aids virus have been stopped.
The World Health Organization said the drug, which uses a microbicidal gel, did not help the women and made them more vulnerable. The tests were carried out on more than 1,300 women in South Africa, Benin, Uganda and India. The WHO and the United Nations Aids agency said it was not clear why the product did not work. A similar test in Nigeria has also been halted but trials of three other microbicides are still continuing. (BBC)
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posted: 9/19/11                   0       1
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keywords: AIDS, Africa, Benin, Canada, India, International AIDS Society, International Partnership For Microbicides, Nigeria, Pedro Cahn, Polydex Pharmaceuticals, South Africa, Tim Farley, UN AIDS, Uganda, United Nations, World Health Organization, Zeda Rosenberg Add New Keyword To Link




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