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Getting to heaven at others' expense
Earlier today I mentioned a religious group east of Vancouver that’s suffering a mumps outbreak because it doesn’t believe in vaccination. It’s getting worse, according to CBC News: Mumps outbreak spreads into Metro Vancouver. Excerpt: …
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CIDRAP: H5N1 turns up at Benin poultry market
Agriculture officials in Benin recently reported that two chickens at a live poultry market tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus, the country’s first outbreak since the virus was detected there at the end of 2007. …
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Altschuler on the 1918-antibodies story
Via Time Magazine, an interview with the co-author of the paper on antibodies to the Spanish flu: How Long Does Flu Immunity Last?
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Supplement Company Selling Oregano Pays $2.5 Million For False Claims
Another shady supplement company has made false claims and has finally been nailed! The marketers of a line of oregano supplements (ya, the shit you put …
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Drugs to Fight Bird Flu, Other Influenza Epidemics on the Anvil
A new drug target in the fight against bird flu and other virulent strains of influenza has been discovered by researche.
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New Anti-bird Flu Air Purifier by Sharp Unveiled
Japan’s Sharp Corp. has developed an air purifier that eliminates 99.9 percent of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu w.
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Politics as medical malpractice
The great 19th-century German physician Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) once observed: “Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale.” A case in point from today’s Globe and Mail on the listeria …
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Vietnam: Smuggling from China brings new H5N1 strain
A strain of the H5N1 virus that poses a high risk of infecting humans and caused an avian flu epidemic in China, has appeared in smuggled poultry in Viet Nam according to Bui Quang Anh, the head of the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural …
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New Bird Flu Vaccine Deemed Safe By Novavax Trial
Boston (ChattahBox) - Novavax Inc. has come out and released the first results from their human safety trials based on their new bird flu vaccine. The results show that the bird flu vaccine is very safe, and just as effective as other …
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Sharp unveils new anti-bird flu air purifier (AFP)
Sharp unveils new anti-bird flu air purifier (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com – AFP - Japan’s Sharp Corp. said Wednesday that it has developed an air purifier that eliminates 99.9 percent of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu within 10 minutes.
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