Published 18 January 2012-Reuters A cluster of suspected whooping cough cases in Colorado was actually most likely a “pseudo-outbreak,” according to an investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The cases, reported in the summer of 2009, seem to have been mistakenly diagnosed when patients’ test samples became contaminated at one medical clinic. However, the CDC says, […]
N.Y. State Health Department: What’s Going On?
By Catherine Frompovich Twelve teenage girls in a New York school have developed tics and other classic symptoms resembling Tourette syndrome, and their parents want answers. But officials aren’t saying much. Tourette syndrome was first recognized and identified in 1885 after France’s compulsory smallpox vaccination program began. Tourette is considered rare in the United States; but […]
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the CDC: A Long, Tangled Tale
By David Tuller, Virology Blog Note: This account draws from interviews, a close reading of a fraction of the 4608 studies that pop up (as of today; yesterday it was 4606) on a PubMed search for “chronic fatigue syndrome,” and a review of many pages of government documents–in particular the minutes and testimony from meetings […]
Scandal Exposed in Major Study of Autism and Mercury
SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD) exposes communications between Centers for Disease Control (CDC) personnel and vaccine researchers revealing U.S. officials apparently colluded in covering-up the decline in Denmark’s autism rates following the removal of mercury from vaccines. Documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show […]
Panel Endorses HPV Vaccine for Boys of 11
Vaccinating the nation’s 11- and 12-year-old boys will cost almost $140 million annually, but the one-time catch-up among males 13 to 21 will cost hundreds of millions more. The government generally pays for about half of all vaccinations. Dr. S. Michael Marcy, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California and a […]
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