By Sandra Tan, Buffalo News staff reporter Officials rule out environmental factors Updated: January 13, 2012, 7:24 AM When a dozen female students at Le Roy High School started exhibiting strange and involuntary movements, seizures or “tics” over the past few months, alarmed school and state health personnel scrambled to determine the cause. After months of […]
Region: Two-thirds of local pertussis cases were vaccinated, data show
By: Joanne Faryon, KPBS, and Kevin Crowe, Watchdog Institute 15 December 2010 As California experiences its worst whooping cough outbreak in more than 60 years, health officials across the country trumpet vaccinations to protect against the disease. The number of cases of the disease in San Diego County this year has reached a record 1,046 […]
Whooping cough epidemic claims the life of tenth baby in California
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 […]
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 […]
