By: Daily Mail Reporter 21 October 2010 A whooping cough outbreak in California has left 10 babies dead and 5,658 confirmed or probable cases. Health officials say a 6-week-old baby in San Diego county was the latest victim in this year’s epidemic – the worst in 55 years. The previous record was set in 1955 […]
Workers suspended for refusing flu shots
By: Jo Ciavaglia 19 November 2010 But Abington Health System officials say more employees are getting vaccinated every day under the threat of losing their jobs in two weeks. The Abington Health System this week suspended without pay more than four dozen employees for failing to get a seasonal flu shot. The suspended employees […]
BARDA awards contracts for influenza vaccine
By: Paul Purlain 11 October 2010 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research Development Authority has announced a new contract worth $57 million to help safeguard the United States in the case of a pandemic influenza outbreak. The contract with French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur is an extension of an existing […]
Thousands of U.S.A. Pregnant Women Miscarry after H1N1 Vaccine
By: Christina England, American Chronicle 27 September 2010 A new report by the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW), states, that as many as 3,587 cases, may of either miscarried or had a stillbirth after receiving the H1N1 vaccine. In an exceptionally strong and well executed report, written on the Child Health Safety Website entitled […]
Gardasil, the FDA, and VAERS: How Americans concerned about vaccines interact with government
By: Marci Greenstein 14 December 2010 Emily Tarsell thought she had enough information about Gardasil — a new vaccine marketed to girls to prevent certain types of cervical cancer — when she agreed to have her daughter receive the vaccine. But after her third and last injection of Gardasil, in 2008, Christina Tarsell, […]