By Suzanne Elvidge Whooping cough is not a pleasant experience–it’s painful for the sufferer, can be life-threatening, particularly in young babies, and is distressing for families and careers. It’s been well-controlled by vaccines since the 1950s, but some data coming out of Australia are cause for concern: It seems that the prolonged whooping cough epidemic that’s […]
Attorney challenges pediatrician’s attack on vaccine religious exemptions
By Alan Phillips, J.D. (NaturalNews) The following pediatrician’s commentary attacking vaccine religious exemptions was published online in Raleigh’s News & Observer (N&O) on February 24, 2012. As the N&O failed to publish my response, I’m publishing it here, where fairness is welcome. It follows the pediatrician’s article immediately below. Vaccinations should be covered by mandate, […]
Whooping cough beats vaccine
By Julie Robotham DANGEROUS new strains of whooping cough bacteria are evading Australia’s vaccine against the disease and entrenching a four-year epidemic that could spread overseas, Sydney scientists have found in research that raises questions about the national immunisation program. Microbiologists from the University of NSW have found variants of the pertussis bacteria with a […]
CREW With Advocacy Groups Ask FTC to Investigate Anti-Competitive Practices of Vaccine Makers
By David Merchant WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Prices (NLARx), the Campaign for America’s Future (CAF), and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to immediately investigate the vaccine bundling practices of Sanofi Pasteur and Merck, which […]
Paralytic polio returns to dent India’s pride
As posted in the Deccan Herald Paralytic polio – derived from oral polio vaccine (OPV) — used for vaccinating millions of children — has struck India to cripple a child in West Bengal within a week of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring the country free from the wild polio virus. A case of vaccine […]
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