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Casey Finnerty

AAP 2011: Discussing America's Anti-vaccine Movement - 0 views

  • In response to Pushpendra jain's comments... I am no longer amazed of anything in pediatrics. In 15 years of primary care suburban practice I have learned the following: I am an antibiotic nazi especially if i do not treat by telephone request, my medical expertise is compromised by my financial gains or relationships with pharmaceutical companies, my patients' parents do more "research" than I do--AKA reading a google searched internet account, I should be available at their whim and see them at a time convenient to their kid's soccer schedule as a walk-in service, and parents that think nothing of texting while driving their kids to said soccer game think that a 1 in 10,000-100,000 risk of a vaccination obviates its well documented scientific benefits. We are in a cycle where people no longer believe in science, but they'll be back when we see resurgences of diseases i haven't seen since medical school.
  • Dr. Segedy, I can assure you that your sentiments were shared by a majority of the attendees at the AAP conference. It seems as though we have gotten to a point where the element of surprise no longer exists; health care providers (for the most part) are numb to the fact that studies with ulterior motives (ie, Wakefield & vaccines/autism) and "celebrities" seem to have more of an impact on health care decisions than physicians who have dedicated their entire lives studying medicine. And when it comes to self diagnosing via Dr. Google, Offit specifically mentioned that a website like the "National Vaccine Information Center" (NCVIC.org) comes up on the first page of Google for a search for "vaccines" and yet the information on the website is extremely misleading and, in some cases, downright wrong. But that doesn't stop people from treating it as credible; after all, it's on the Internet so it must be true!
Emma Radzak

First vaccine to help control some autism symptoms - 0 views

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    A vaccine to combat the microorganism C. bolteae may be the solution for alleviating digestion symptoms often associated with autism. Children with autism have been known to have higher levels of this organism than that of a healthy child. It is assumed that toxins produced by the C. bolteae may be associated with severe symptoms that autistic children typically have, such as diarrhea. I found it ironic that many people still think that vaccines cause autism, and here is a vaccine to assist in alleviating the digestive symptoms associated with it.
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    A vaccine to combat the microorganism C. bolteae may be the solution for alleviating digestion symptoms often associated with autism. Children with autism have been known to have higher levels of this organism than that of a healthy child. It is assumed that toxins produced by the C. bolteae may be associated with severe symptoms that autistic children typically have, such as diarrhea. I found it ironic that many people still think that vaccines cause autism, and here is a vaccine to assist in alleviating the digestive symptoms associated with it.
Casey Finnerty

Reassessing Flu Shots as the Season Draws Near - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • “It does not protect as promoted. It’s all a sales job: it’s all public relations.”
  • “I say, ‘Use this vaccine,’ ” he said. “The safety profile is actually quite good. But we have oversold it. Use it — but just know it’s not going to work nearly as well as everyone says.”
  • “Does it work as well as the measles vaccine? No, and it’s not likely to. But the vaccine works,” Dr. Joseph Bresee, chief of epidemiology and prevention in the C.D.C.’s influenza division, said. And research is advancing to improve the effectiveness of the vaccine.
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  • “Not having evidence doesn’t prove it doesn’t work; we just don’t know,” said Dr. Roger Thomas, a Cochrane Collaboration coordinator for the University of Calgary in Alberta, who was an author of both of the reviews. “The intelligent decision would be to have large, publicly funded independent trials.”
  • Another option for those who want to reduce their risk of influenza and flulike infections may be simply this: Wash your hands more often. There is good evidence this works.
Casey Finnerty

Who dares confront the parents of the Bay Area Waldorf School with the 23% vaccination ... - 0 views

  • Rogobo, you make a welcome and important point. But reality is that this topic seems to give rise to insult because it has high stakes (precious cargo on board! kids! death and disease). If you think it's hard to hear a message while people are shouting insults, what's it like being deaf because your mummy got rubella while pregnant? I would put it like this: Notion 1: A world without effective serious infection vaccine is uglier and less pleasant than the alternative (polio, anyone?).  Notion 2: At a population level, vaccines improve outcomes more than they harm them.  Notion 3: At a population level, improved outcomes and the prospect of eradication is dependent on high individual participation. Notion 4: At an individual level, there is some risk associated with vaccination. Notion 5: Healthy people not taking the risks of vaccination are: (a) free riding on those who are taking the risks; (b) reducing the prospect of eradication; (c) increasing the prospect of passing infection to those medically incapable of taking the risk Notion 6: Individual liberty and freedom to choose might sometimes be trumped by requirements of public welfare Happy to have any of those notions challenged and discussed
Megan Rasmussen

Aluminum in Vaccines: What you should know - 0 views

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    I was briefly shocked about some of the chemicals found in vaccines, which lead to finding the focus paper for our presentation. This article is about aluminum vaccines but this site: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/additives.htm, form the CDC has some other additives and what these additives are used for.
Casey Finnerty

Uptick in Whooping Cough Linked to Subpar Vaccines - ScienceNOW - 0 views

  • vaccinemakers have introduced newer, "acellular" vaccines that consist of refined pertussis proteins that provide immunity against disease without severe side effects.
  • Children who had received only the acellular vaccine were more than 5.6 times more likely to get sick than those who received the old, whole-cell vaccine, the team will report next month in Pediatrics. Those receiving one or more of each type had an intermediate risk.
Casey Finnerty

Hilary Koprowski, Developed Live-Virus Polio Vaccine, Dies at 96 - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Fascinating obituary on the scientist who developed the first attenuated virus vaccine for polio. Surprise! It was not Salk nor Sabin.
anonymous

U.S.-backed HIV vaccine fails; study halted - 0 views

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    The tested HIV vaccine was based on the common cold virus, to alert the body's immune system.There are still many HIV vaccine trials being tested, so HIV vaccines are still in the works.
Casey Finnerty

For DTaP Vaccine, Thigh May Be Better Injection Site Than Arm - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • researchers found that children between the ages of 1 and 3 who were given the DTaP vaccine in their thigh instead of in their upper arm were around half as likely to have a local reaction
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      Simple but effective.
Jeremiah Williamson

U.S. Considers Testing A Vaccine Against Weaponized Anthrax For Children | Popular Science - 1 views

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    Bioterrorism is a scary thought, but is the government going too far?  A vaccine against anthrax may be a bit much, especially testing it on children.
Casey Finnerty

Construction and Evaluation of a Novel Recombinant T Cell Epitope-Based Vaccine against... - 0 views

  • No approved human vaccine exists against San Joaquin Valley fever or, for that matter, against any other fungal disease (7).
  • Retrospective evidence from patient studies suggests that people who contract an acute pulmonary or disseminated Coccidioides infection and recover develop lifelong cell-mediated immunity against recurrent coccidioidomycosis.
  • Based on this observation, together with results of protection studies with experimental animals, it has been proposed that generation of a vaccine against this respiratory mycosis is feasible.
Casey Finnerty

In Nigeria, Polio Vaccine Workers Are Killed by Gunmen - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • In a roundabout way, the C.I.A. has been blamed for the Pakistan killings.
  • The killings, with eerie echoes of attacks that killed nine female polio workers in Pakistan in December, represented another serious setback for the global effort to eradicate polio.
  • Since the vaccine ruse in Pakistan, she said, “Frankly, now, I can’t go to them and say, ‘The C.I.A. isn’t involved.’ ”
Casey Finnerty

Swine flu vaccines are safe and time-tested, experts assert -- chicagotribune.com - 0 views

  • "We've been baking this bread for 60 years, and we're pretty good at it, buddy," said Kenneth Alexander, an infectious disease expert at the University of Chicago.
  • "I continue to be amazed that people bring this issue up," said Paul Offit, a pediatrician and noted University of Pennsylvania vaccine researcher. "There have been six exhaustive studies (of a possible link between thimerosal and autism). ... They each came back with a definitive answer: No. Three other studies were done to see if thimerosal caused any signs of mercury poisoning. All three answered: No."
Casey Finnerty

Production of swine flu vaccine is way behind - Yahoo! News - 0 views

  • Also, Protein Sciences Corp. of Meriden, Conn., landed a five-year, $147 million contract to develop a vaccine using its recombinant technology — flu proteins grown in insect cells. The hope is that the first doses would be available within 12 weeks of the beginning of a pandemic. That is about twice as fast as flu vaccine produced from eggs.
Whitney Hopfauf

Lyme disease vaccine? Tick saliva found to protect mice from Lyme disease - 0 views

  • antibodies against a protein in the saliva of a pathogen's transmitting agent
  • has been shown to confer immunity when administered protectively as a vaccine.
  • Lyme bacterium known as
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  • Borrelia burgdorferi
  • . When it moves through the tick, it is coated with a tick salivary protein known as Salp15
  • injected Salp15 into healthy mice and found that it significantly protected them from getting Lyme disease
  • combined with outer surface proteins of B. burgdorferi, the protection was even greater.
  • Lyme vaccine on the market that utilized just the outer surface proteins of the bacteria. It was taken off the market in 2002
  • targeting the saliva -- the "vector molecule" that a microbe requires to infect a host -- may be applicable not just to Lyme disease but to other insect-borne pathogens
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    This is slightly out of date but very interesting
Emma Radzak

Effect of Rotavirus Vaccine on Diarrhea Mortality in Different Socioeconomic Regions of... - 0 views

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    The rotavirus vaccination was introduced in 2007 to most of Mexico. By 2010 most of the children in Mexico were vaccinated. This study wanted to see the correlation between the effectiveness of the vaccination compared to different socioeconomic statuses. They compared different regions in Mexico and found that throughout the country the Diarrhea Mortality rate caused by the rotavirus significantly decreased in all areas.
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