Thanks, AnneZ, and flutrackers for the assistance. I really did not know that there were this many vaccine manufacturers. Alas, most not on US soil. The following information is from monotreme at...
Thanks, sirI, and thanks to CIDRAP for this series. Who makes the flu vax that you are using? If we are talking strictly flu vax, all I am hearing about is Sanofi Pasteur in Swiftwater, Pa, and I...
THE PANDEMIC VACCINE PUZZLE Part 2: Vaccine production capacity falls far short Maryn McKenna Contributing Writer "Editor's note: This is the second in a seven-part series investigating the prospects...
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Influenza Spread Dependent Upon Less Heat, Less Humidity This is an important concept to understand, and appears to be historically accurate if indeed the 1918 pandemic began in the US, a temperate...
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Uganda prepares for Bird to Bird (B2B) H5N1 http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2007/10/uganda-prepares.html A Worrying Report about Africa http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/ [quote=The Lancet...
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I have a version of this that has a timeline up at the top of the page that is updated to March 2007. I do not know how to link to it. I probably had help to find it, and not being very computer...
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With permission from Effect Measure: The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United...
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You can access Google Earth to visualize the spread of H5N1, avian flu across the globe. You can choose to look at the spread in birds or in human/mammlian cases with this technology. It is an...
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/oct2507panvax1.html THE PANDEMIC VACCINE PUZZLE Part 1: Flu research: a legacy of neglect Maryn McKenna Contributing Writer "This is the...
Perspective needed on HHS Flu Vaccine Allocation Plan http://www.scottmcpherson.net/journal/perspective-needed-on-hhs-flu-vaccine-allocation-plan.html Having a difficult time believing any of this?...
Perspective needed on HHS Flu Vaccine Allocation Plan http://www.scottmcpherson.net/journal/perspective-needed-on-hhs-flu-vaccine-allocation-plan.html Scott McPherson is the CIO of the Florida House...
From Effect Measure with permission: The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United...
Draft Guidance on Allocating and Targeting Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Should be required reading for all citizens. This document is important. http://pandemicflu.gov/vaccine/prioritization.html One...
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Riau, Indonesia Even though the Indonesians are now saying that 10 year old Gozi did not test positive for bird flu, the media, especially the Chinese have never reported her case as a negative. I...
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Indonesia, 89th Fatality Her name was Dewi which translates as "goddess", four years old. http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2007/10/ndonesian-girl-.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21445023/...
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Yes, at night it is in some places, depending on the unit. If you are the only nurse in the facility, you may have more than one floor also. In this case, the acuity level is usually not very high....
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http://www.scottmcpherson.net/journal/2007/10/22/death-returns-to-riau.html Same Case, Another Update Hard to say what is true, but very suspicious for many reasons. Indonesia is now saying this...
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While these can be helpful, $2000 month does seem, well, rather excessive... I have a naturopathic doc, who is also an MD. I am sure that he would be appalled. Sometimes folks do self medicate, and...
Making the 'V' List This is important information for all of us. A draft federal plan will be outlined Tuesday in Washington on how the distribution of a pandemic-strain specific vaccine will be...