U.S. Vaccine Industry Harvesting Blood from Horseshoe Crabs
For many decades, the blue colored blood from horseshoe crabs has been harvested for purposes of medical research and for quality control and safety testing in vaccines, prosthetics and intravenous drugs. Their eggs are also a staple food for a shorebird bird known as the red knot, which is listed as threatened under the Endangered […]
Dr. Fauci Became a Multi-Millionaire While Heading Up a Federal Health Agency
After retiring as the director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) last year, Anthony Fauci, MD reported a net household worth of $11.5 million. This included the net worth of his wife Christine Grady, chief bioethicist at NIH. Dr. Fauci’s termination report showed that the […]
Oral Vaccine for COVID Under Development in Japan
Researchers in Japan have been working on a new vaccine for COVID-19 that would be administered orally rather than by injection. The vaccine, under development by EPS Holdings, Inc. of Tokyo, is in the form of a pill that is placed under the tongue and contains part of the spike protein along with an adjuvant […]
U.S. Shuts Down Risky Novel Animal Virus Research Program
The U.S. government has shut down a research program that searches for new animal viruses in Asia, Africa and Latin America that have the potential to infect humans and cause a pandemic. The $125 million dollar research program called Discovery and Exploration of Emerging Pathogens- Viral Zoonoses (DEEP VZN) focused on the study of novel […]
Pulling Out All the Stops to Sell More COVID Shots
This year, Pfizer, Inc. and Moderna, Inc. have experienced sharply declining sales of their messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 shots, Comirnaty and Spikevax. Pfizer reported first-quarter (ending Mar. 31, 2023) sales of $3 billion for Comirnaty—down 75 percent from the same period in 2022. It posted second-quarter (ending June 30) sales of $1.49 billion—down 83 percent […]
Big Pharma’s Revolving Door With Government Health Agencies
More than half of the staff at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) go to work for pharmaceutical giants when they leave the government, according to a new report by researchers at the University of Southern California and Harvard University. The report showed that eight percent of the CDC staff came from […]