Rice Study Predicts 19 Percent Efficacy for 2018-2019 Influenza Vaccine
A computer-based tool developed as part of a study by researchers at Rice University in Texas is gauging the anticipated efficacy of this season’s influenza vaccine at 19 percent. The tool, known as pEpitope, is a computational model measuring critical differences in the genetic sequences of circulating strains of influenza virus. Other flu vaccine efficacy […]
Only 1.3 Percent of Children Unvaccinated Says CDC
A random telephone survey conducted last year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that only 1.3 percent of young children in the United States and U.S. territories in 2015 may be completely unvaccinated. The sample size of the annual 2017 National Immunization Survey-Child (NIS-Child) was 15,333 children between the ages of 19 […]
FluMist “Reformulated” But Still Mostly the Same Old Vaccine
On June 22, 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended against using the FluMist live virus nasal spray influenza vaccine, manufactured by AstraZeneca plc subsidiary MedImmune, LLC. The recommendation was based on the determination that FluMist was only three percent effective in protecting children two to 17 years […]
Doctors Claim it is Safe to Vaccinate Kids Even After Vaccine Reactions
Story Highlights Authors of a new study claim that it is safe to revaccinate children after they have suffered an adverse reaction, particularly when if the first reaction was mild or moderate. Canadian researchers analyzed almost 20 years of records for 5,600 children for whom an adverse vaccine reaction had been reported. Of those, 1,731 were […]
Vaccine for Acne Targets Bacteria in the Skin’s Microbiome
Story Highlights Current acne treatments such as antibiotics, birth control pills, etc., have largely proven to be ineffective. A proposed vaccine to treat acne targets toxins secreted by a specific bacteria, P.acnes, which lives on the skin and is a part of the skin’s natural mircobiome. Concerns have been raised regarding the vaccine because of […]
Gardasil Was Linked to My Daughter’s Death
Hard evidence refutes Stephen Neidenbach’s recent false and misinformed letter [in the Capital Gazette] on the HPV vaccine and the court case for the Gardasil-induced death of Christina Tarsell. By law since 1986, you cannot sue pharma for injuries and deaths due to childhood vaccines.1 Congress instead created a system called the “vaccine court” to process […]