CDC Advisory Committee Flip Flops on FluMist
On June, 22, 2016, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended…
FDA Approves Four-Strain Flu Vaccine for Children
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently expanded the age indication for Seqirus’ Afluria Quadrivalent influenza vaccine to include…
Expanding Vaccination Rates by Allowing More People to Give Them
In 2009, public health officials in the United States responded to a predicted “heavy flu season” by passing a regulation…
FDA Gives Green Light to Test Lyme Disease Vaccine on Humans
Clinical trials for a new Lyme disease vaccine will be conducted in the U.S. and Belgium after the U.S. Food…
Fauci Says Zika Vaccine Coming by 2018
Director of the National Institutes for Health Anthony Fauci, MD announced this week that a Zika vaccine could be rushed…
Theory Used to Force Vaccination of Children is Not Always True
There is increasing pressure to force vaccinations on children, and increasing marketing of vaccines for adults, including pneumonia and shingles.…
Pertussis Microbe Outsmarts the Vaccines as Experts Argue About Why (Part II)
When there are a lot of people with silent asymptomatic pertussis infections, it is impossible to know who is a…
Chickenpox Vaccine May Increase Shingles Risk
Before the licensing of the live varicella zoster (chickenpox) virus vaccine in 1995 and subsequent mandating of the vaccine for…
Pertussis Microbe Outsmarts the Vaccines as Experts Argue About Why (Part I)
For the past decade, Americans have been subjected to dire warnings that B. pertussis whooping cough cases are on the…
Understanding the Rationale Behind Vaccines
Story Highlights The prevailing assumption within the medical, government, pharmacology and science communities is that vaccines are safe and effective.…