Professor Says Parents Have No Right to Refuse Vaccines for Their Children
In a recent video commentary published in Medscape, New York University professor Arthur L. Caplan, PhD offered his views on the question of whether children have “vaccination rights.”1 Dr. Caplan thinks that what he defines as the “vaccination rights” of minor children supersede the legal right of their parents to exercise informed consent to vaccination on their […]
Will AFM Quickly Go Viral Like Microcephaly?
Nobody seems to know what is causing the “polio-like” condition known as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). Public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keep stating they don’t know why healthy children are being randomly paralyzed around the country and scientists and medical doctors outside the nation’s top health agency are […]
Cracking the Peanut Allergy
It was terrifying. His face basically swelled up like twice the normal size. When you’ve held your daughter in your arms, almost dying, because of something as basic as milk. Every three minutes, a food allergy reaction sends someone to the emergency room. It’s like navigating a mine field at all times. The statistics are […]
Chinese Vaccine Maker Fined a Record $1.3 Billion
The Chinese government has imposed a fine of more than $1.3 billion on a Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology Co. Ltd. of Jilin Sheng, China for manufacturing faulty rabies vaccines.1 The company was found to have falsified production and inspection data for 113,000 of its Vero cell-based human rabies vaccines.2 According to the AFP news service, food and drug […]
About Those 80,000 Deaths from Influenza…
Normally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that between 12,000 and 56,000 people die of influenza each year in the United States. At least, that’s the range the agency has given for the “flu seasons” since 2010.1 At a press conference held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on September 27, […]
CDC Investigates 155 Cases of ‘Polio-like’ AFM, Confirms 62
The confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in the United States this year have now spiked to 62 cases in 22 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is up from early-October when the CDC had confirmed 38 cases of AFM in 16 states.1 2 3 The CDC is […]