By: Nikolai Petrovsky, Susanne Heinzel, Yoshikazu Honda, and A. Bruce Lyons A major unsolved challenge in development is how to achieve a potent adjuvant effect while avoiding reactogenicity or toxicity. Older vaccines made from live or killed whole organisms were effective, but suffered from high reactogenicity. As vaccine manufacturers developed safer, less reactogenic subunit vaccines, […]
Vaccine Hypersensitivity – Update and Overview
By: Philipp J. Fritsche, et al. Summary Concerns about possible reactions to vaccines or vaccinations are frequently raised. However, the rate of reported vaccine-induced adverse events is low and ranges between 4.8–83.0 per 100 000 doses of the most frequently used vaccines. The number of true allergic reactions to routine vaccines is not known; estimations […]
Aluminum Hydroxide Injections Lead to Motor Deficits and Motor Neuron Degeneration
Authors: Christopher Shaw/Michael Petrik 10 Feb 2010 Abstract: Gulf War Syndrome is a multi-system disorder afflicting many veterans of Western armies in the 1990–1991 Gulf War. A number of those afflicted may show neurological deficits including various cognitive dysfunctions and motor neuron disease, the latter expression virtually indistinguishable from classical amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) except […]
Synoptic Overview: Issues in Immunization Theory and Practice
Prepared by: Raymond Obamsowin November 2009 IMMUNIZATION THEORY ISSUES: Theory: Vaccination is the injection of antigenic material, such as pathogen derived foreigh proteins and toxic adjuvants into the body, to initiate a “learned” immune system response in order to prevent particular diseases. Memory T cells (cell-mediated immunity) and Memory B cells (humoral-mediated immunity) learn to […]