By Natasha Bita KIRSTEN and Mick Button were looking forward to a family holiday in Bali when the letter landed in their mailbox. From the West Australian Health Department, it urged them to vaccinate their children against the flu. A killer new strain of influenza, a mutant mix of human, avian and swine influenza viruses, […]
Database to raise alarm on vaccines
By: Natasha Bita, Consumer Editor 04 October 2010 HEALTH authorities are to be alerted instantly to any severe side effects from vaccination in the first “real-time” immunisation database. The Australian Health Ministers Conference will debate Western Australia’s plan to set up an online monitoring system for immunisation, to avoid a repeat of this year’s […]
Vaccine makers targeted in lawsuit
By: Paula Reed Ward, ‘Pittsburg Post Gazette’ 11 October 2010 Hanna Bruesewitz’s parents think DPT vaccination caused the child’s seizure disorder, but the vaccine maker is protected from suits by federal law. On April 1, 1992, Hannah Bruesewitz was a healthy infant. She had reached all of her developmental milestones for a 6-month-old, and that […]
