HPV Vaccination for 12-Year-Old Girls—Make Up Your Own Mind
If you are the parent or guardian of a 12-year-old girl in Ireland, this may concern you. When your child is in her first year of secondary school, you will receive home a leaflet from the HSE. It will contain information about the HPV vaccine, which is recommended for her and which, it claims, will […]
Naled Invades Miami Beach
Planes are scheduled to begin spraying the controversial pesticide Naled over South Beach tomorrow morning, and that has activists worried the pesticide could do damage to humans and to the environment. On Tuesday that was when they announced they were going to spray Naled. There was a lot of outrage about that. First at noon, […]
How Much Do You Really Know About the Flu Vaccine?
Did you know that the flu vaccine is the number one selling vaccine in America, but it is also the least effective? Each year, pharmaceutical companies produce over 150 million doses of influenza vaccine. Each dose sells for about $20, making flu vaccination a $3 billion annual industry. Over the past decade, annual flu vaccine […]
Vaccination Not All Black and White | Richard Moskowitz, MD
So, let’s think about the measles. That’s a very good example because it’s a strong infectious disease, and it has a high fever, and then you get over it in a week… and I’m looking at that process, what’s involved in that. That’s a concerted outpouring of the entire immune system, the result of which […]
I Love the Smell of Naled in the Morning—Battle Against Zika
An update on Zika. First area in Florida where Zika was found was in Wynwood. There are now 14 cases of Zika infection. All originating in the Wynwood section—a one square mile area north of downtown. A few weeks after that they found a few more Zika cases here in Miami Beach. They created another […]
Children Suffer Vaccine Side Effects
In 2005, Hu Haitoa took his son, Hu Bing, to a local clinic in East China’s Shandong province. There, the four and a half month old baby received a vaccination to prevent polio. But 14 days later the infant showed signs of a serious reaction. The child slipped into a brief coma and also experienced […]