Americans Traveling Abroad Face Vaccine Decisions
U.S. public health officials commonly advocate vaccinations for Americans traveling abroad, but most foreign countries “recommend” rather than “mandate” vaccinations for visitors. Cholera vaccine, for example, has a limited and transient effectiveness for reducing illness and does not prevent transmission of infection. Because of this and the extremely low risk of infection for travelers…
The Safety Implications of Pharmacists Giving Vaccines
A new survey conducted by healthcare communications solutions firm PrescribeWellness LLC of Irvine, CA found that 62 percent of respondents preferred visiting their local pharmacy to get vaccinated rather than going to their doctor’s office. In its 2017 Vaccination and Preventive Care Survey, PrescribeWellness interviewed 1,000 Americans over the age of 35 on their views of vaccination…
Childhood Cancer Up 13 Percent in Past Two Decades
A recent study, coordinated by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), published in Lancet Oncology shows that childhood cancer was 13 percent more common between 2001-2010 than in the 1980s, totaling to an annual incidence rate of 140 per million children aged 0-14 years worldwide. Although the data for this study was…
Obesity Vaccine Wins First TVR Golden Fleece Award
Last year, an article titled “Stranger and Stranger Vaccines: Are We Being Fleeced?” introduced a new series of articles for The Vaccine Reaction aimed at highlighting the “strangest vaccines in the pipeline.” Vaccines proposed or already under development that may cause you to stop and wonder, “Are they serious?”1 The article pointed out that during […]
A Hidden Vaccine Side Effect That Many Pet Owners (and Vets) Never Suspect
Recently I ran across a sad, maddening news article discussing an increase in autoimmune disorder diagnoses by veterinarians. According to the article: “Similar to humans, autoimmune disorders in dogs can happen suddenly. But what’s different is the condition is just recently being heavily researched in dogs because they’re dying from it.” The article discusses…
12-Year Old Girl Left Paralyzed After Suffering an Alleged Reaction to HPV Vaccine
I’m Gini Blesky and this is my daughter Mia who’s 12. On the 21st of September last year, 2016, she had the first HPV vaccination at school. The following morning she woke up and she couldn’t walk. Her legs were shaky and she had burning in either side of her spine all the way up […]