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• Just Say No To Mercury

  Published: July 19, 2007, 8:36 am

  Tags: Flu Shots, Thimerosal, Greg Powell, Cdc

  aggressively promotes flu shots for pregnant women, children, the elderly and people with chronic health conditions.Ironically, these are the very people who are most vulnerable to mercury toxicity.Flu shots without mercury are available.I encourage all people who are planning to get a flu shot, especially pregnant women, to request a flu

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• Bird Flu Vaccine. Now with TWICE the Mercury!

  Published: July 12, 2007, 11:48 pm

  Tags: Mercury, Thimerosal, Fda, Bird Flu, Vaccines

  newly approved Bird Flu vaccine contains 100mgs of Thimerosal which means 50 of Mercury!http://www.fda.gov/cber/label/h5n1san041707LB.pdfWhereas you needed to be 550lbs to safely take the mercury laden flu shot with 25 mikes of merc according to the EPA, now you must weigh 1100 lbs to safely take the bird flu shot. Oh... and you need two

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• Figuring out how flu gets around [Effect Measure]

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:35 am

  Tags: Bird Flu

  Branswell is such a good flu reporter is she has the best contacts. Of course this is a chicken-and-egg proposition, because she has the best contacts because she is the best flu reporter. She gets it right and she explains it the way it was told to her. [By the way, I am not on her payroll. In fact she is uncomfortable about being praised.

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• Human trials start for H5N1 DNA vaccine [Effect Measure]

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:09 am

  Tags: Bird Flu

  trials for a "universal flu vaccine" that works across subtypes (H5N1, H1N1, H3N2, etc.) as well as across drift variations within subtypes (the genetic differences seen from year to year in seasonal influenza, for example). Now a DNA vaccine, specifically for H5N1, is starting clinical trials at NIH: Read the rest of this post... Read the

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• To prep or not to prep? That is not the question. [Effect Measure]

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:27 am

  Tags: Bird Flu

  I don't have a stash of Tamiflu or water or canned goods, despite the fact we have written (often) here about the possibilities of supply chain and infrastructure. With the understanding I am not against personal prepping, I would still like to urge both some caution and perspective. Here's some of the news story that attracted my attention,

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• Presenting Panflu Prep On A Larger Stage

  Published: August 7, 2007, 9:06 am

  Tags: Pandemic Preparedness, Bird Flu, H5n1

  about where the fed panflu money is going, and Dave gave a wonderful personal overview of what's happened to public health over the last 40 years.

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• From pandemic flu to Wal-Mart, brought to you without comment [Effect Measure]

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:34 pm

  Tags: Bird Flu

  Dr. John Agwunobe is the federal official in charge of the US Public Health SErvie Commission Corps and of coordinating the nation's response to pandemic influenza. At least he will be until the end of this month. Announcement from Department of Health and Human Services: Read the rest of this post... Read the comments on this post...

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• Does quarantine work for pandemic flu? [Effect Measure]

  Published: August 9, 2007, 8:02 am

  Tags: Bird Flu

  for stopping the spread of influenza, but now a piece comes out in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that claims quarantine was an effective mitigation method for influenza in 1918. Time Magazine, for example, had an article with the headline: "Study: Quarantines Work Against Pandemics": Read the rest of this post... Read

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• Severe Seasonal Flu in Australia And Health Infrastructure In The US

  Published: August 22, 2007, 10:33 am

  Tags: Australia, Seasonal Flu, Influenza, Health Infrastructure

  on the particularly severe flu season in Australia, we thought it useful to remind ourselves that a bad flu season can be really bad -- worse than the 1918 pandemic in some locations. Here is a post we did back in April 2006 about an interesting paper (see link in post) by Cecile Viboud and her colleagues at NIH that looks at historical records

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• The wild bird conundrum [Effect Measure]

  Published: September 5, 2007, 8:05 am

  Tags: Bird Flu

  What seemed pretty obvious at first, that wild birds could be and were long distance carriers of H5N1 is, like the birds themselves, still up in the air. The problem is that existing data on migrating wild birds has failed to show convincing evidence they are infected: Read the rest of this post... Read the comments on this post...

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• H5N1 and chlorination [Effect Measure]

  Published: September 7, 2007, 8:52 am

  Tags: Bird Flu

  a lot to know about influenza that we don't know. Unfortunately a lot of is things you thought we knew but don't. Like whether there is a risk from influenza virus in drinking water. Admittedly this hasn't been at the top of the list for seasonal flu, since the main reservoir for this virus is other people and that's who you catch it from.

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• The Back to School Fairy has struck at our house

  Published: September 10, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Back To School Flu, Backtoschoolflu, Flu, School Car Pools, Schoolcarpools, Sick Moms, Sickmoms

  Filed under: Going to school, Working from homeIt happens every year when my kids return to school: the Back to School Fairy (BTSF) gives me something other than a few hours of peace and quiet. She is sort of like the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause in that she comes but once a year and her her arrival is yearned for the entire month before she

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• Learning lessons [Effect Measure]

  Published: September 11, 2007, 8:57 am

  Tags: Bird Flu

  It's September 11, so time to do a "security" post. Sigh. The current dopiness concerns the lessons we can learned for making das Vaterland safe after the recent Atlanta lawyer TB incident. Since learning the wrong lesson seems to be standard operating procedure for both Republicans and Democrats, not to mention "professional" public health types

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• Sick again, sick again

  Published: September 12, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Flu Bug, Flubug, Getting Sick, Gettingsick, Illness, Toddlers

  an ear infection, a flu bug, perhaps strep throat?It's a little easier now because at least he can (kind of) tell me what's hurting. His eyes slant downwards when he is sick, almost comedic in their old-man puffiness."It hurts, Mommy," he tells me, pointing to his stomach."I know sweetie. And does it hurt here?" I point to his throat.

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• A pet project in pandemic planning [Effect Measure]

  Published: September 14, 2007, 8:58 am

  Tags: Bird Flu

  rare. But chickens get bird flu. It turns out that

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