AFM Compared to Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Right now there is no conclusive evidence that recently reported cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) primarily reported in children is caused by a virus. All there is at the moment is speculation that a virus could be causing this polio-like illness. While it may appear that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials are […]
Has the Hib Vaccine Simply Shifted the Risk Burden to the Elderly?
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) was a common childhood infection1 the US before the development of the Hib vaccine. It’s unrelated to the influenza virus and, indeed, isn’t even a virus; but the fact that the disease was caused instead by a bacteria wasn’t discovered until after the organism had already got its name. Type […]
Seriously. A Vaccine for the Common Cold?
Children are supposed to catch colds, and lots of them. That’s how they build a healthy immune system. Yes colds are inconvenient, and yes they keep the family up at night, and yes a parent even has to stay home from work to adequately care for the child (and keep them from spreading it to […]
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 […]
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, […]
Vaccines are the Victims of Their Own Success?
One of the most common explanations given by supporters of vaccine mandates for why a growing number of people are having second thoughts about vaccination is that vaccines have been so successful in defeating infectious diseases that people forget how bad things were before vaccines. In a recent BMJ opinion piece, Giovanni Rezza, MD of […]