Push for National Bird Flu Vaccine Program as USDA Points to Falling Egg Prices After Gains in Biosecurity Containment
Publicity about avian influenza (H5N1) infecting chickens, turkeys and cows in the United States1 and globally has been widespread for several years as fears about the possibility of bird flu epidemics among humans have led to calls for acceleration of development and use of animal and human bird flu vaccines.2 3 4 5 In February […]
Keep the Federal Government Out of State Public Health and Vaccine Law Making | Barbara Loe Fisher
[T]here are calls by some for the White House and U.S. Attorney General and Congress to intervene in California, New York, Maine and Connecticut and to override the constitutional authority of those state legislatures to make vaccine laws, which may or may not include religious belief exemptions to vaccination. The argument is that those four […]
FDA Approves MenQuadfi Meningococcal Vaccine for Six-Week-Old Infants
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has licensed Sanofi’ SA’s four-valent MenQuadfi meningococcal vaccine for use in infants aged six weeks to 23 months old to prevent invasive meningococcal disease. Previously approved for children aged two and older, MenQuadfi is now the first meningococcal vaccine included on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and […]
The Truth About Whooping Cough in the U.S.
Once again, this year, Americans are being warned that B pertussis whooping cough cases are on the rise and society is being endangered by parents who don’t vaccinate their children. That myth goes back to the early 1980s when parents of DPT-injured children in the U.S. were calling for a less reactive pertussis vaccine, because […]
Swedish Study Investigates Food Allergy Increases in Children But Big Questions Remain
An estimated 1 in 13 children in the United States now have food allergies, a 50 percent increase in the incidence of food allergies between 1997 and 2011. Food allergy researchers have suggested there are several factors contributing to this increase, including shifts toward more processed diets, insufficient levels of vitamin D from limited sun […]
CDC Picks Thimerosal Researcher for Vaccines, Autism Study
On Mar. 7, 2025, the Associated Press and other media sources reported that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning to conduct a study to determine possible links between vaccines and autism. In a prepared statement, the DHHS vaccine policymaking agency said that the “CDC will leave no stone unturned in its […]