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A new report in the American Chronicle says thousands of US women may have miscarried their babies last year after getting the H1N1 (swine flu) shot. The Chronicle quoted a new report by the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW), which believes...
A case scheduled to be heard by the United States Supreme Court could mean a life-changing difference for anyone ever adversely-affected by a vaccine. As reported in the ABA Journal, the the high court will decide a case this term on whether the 1986...
Australian health officials say they’ve used only half of the swine flu vaccine they ordered last year for the pandemic-that-wasn’t, and they’re going to have to throw it out, since it’s set to expire soon. According to The Australian: “Federal health...
In recent years, pertussis, also known as whooping cough, has made an alarming comeback, even among those who were vaccinated as children. pertussis is now epidemic in California, with 2,774 confirmed cases in 2010 -- a sevenfold increase from last year...
U.S. regulators have said that Sanofi-Aventis failed to follow proper manufacturing procedures at a vaccine plant in France. The plant was operated by Sanofi Pasteur, the company's vaccine unit. FDA inspectors visited the facility in Marcy l'Etoile, France...
A woman in her 20s was infected with the vaccinia virus used in smallpox vaccines year after sexual contact with her boyfriend, who had been vaccinated five days earlier. The man had removed the bandage that covered his vaccination site earlier that day...
In the two years that a shingles vaccine has been available, fewer than 10 percent of all eligible patients have received it. Researchers recently surveyed almost 600 primary care physicians and found that fewer than half strongly recommended the shingles...
According to a review of 20 opinion polls, U.S. citizens who did not get swine flu shots usually avoided them for one of two reasons: Because they thought the swine flu was not a serious threat, or Because they had fears about potential dangers form the...
Villagers in India are staging protests following the death of two infants who received DPT and BCG vaccines. Nazeer Ansari and Rohan Reza were vaccinated along with eight other children, all of whom fell ill. Five of the children were admitted with high...
Childhood vaccines may trigger early onset of a severe form of infant epilepsy. The disorder, which is known as Dravet syndrome, usually begins with seizures around the age of six months. The children develop poor language and motor skills, and have difficulty...
Live vaccines intended to inoculate poultry against Newcastle disease may be altering the genetic makeup of wild virus strains. This could make future outbreaks difficult to cure. Futurity notes that: “... vaccinated birds can shed the vaccine virus to...
Two-year-old Ashley Jade Epapara was "perfectly fine" before dying just 12 hours after receiving a flu shot. Her death is being investigated by police and the office of the coroner. According to Perth Now: “Mrs. Epapara [said] that ‘tests are being carried...
On March 25, GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix vaccine -- used for a diarrhea-causing virus called rotavirus -- was recalled because it was found to be contaminated with a supposedly "harmless" pig virus. "PCV-1 does not multiply in humans and is not known to...
The UK contracts with GlaxoSmithKline and Baxter have been cancelled, as the scale of the swine flu pandemic has not reached the level feared. Almost 130 million doses had been ordered – enough for everyone to have two doses which it was thought would...
With the hysteria over H1N1 swine flu winding down, government officials are revealing that as many as 71 million doses of unused vaccine may expire in the coming months. Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization, said...
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