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17 nov. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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France steps up H1N1 vaccination campaign

A large proportion of a still sceptical French public will decide for itself this week whether to be inoculated against "swine flu" (H1N1 or influenza A as it’s more commonly called here) as the government’s vaccination campaign (...)

10 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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Surgical masks versus respirators for flu protection

We only just got to the surgical/N95 mask article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). We’ve been traveling and haven’t been able to keep up with what others were saying, but we’re sure it’s been well covered (...)

10 nov. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Comment

Scoring cheap points

My last blog on president Yushchenko’s national address on the flu epidemic has been placed in Taras Kuzio’s ’Ukrainska Pravda’ Blog. There’s has been quite a number of comments, some mentioning the impracticality of the (...)

10 nov. 2009 | 6 comments | Foreign Notes

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Federal Government Knows That GlazoSmithKline Are Shipping Bulk Quantities Of H1N1 Vaccine Out Of Canada

A lot of Canadians would like to get a shot of H1N1 vaccine, but the Federal Government has screwed things up so badly that frustrations continue to rise across the nation : Extra Canadian flu vaccine sent abroad "Extra vaccine for the H1N1 virus has (...)

5 nov. 2009 | | Leftdog

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Playing Grandmaster chess with swine flu

A reader asked an offline question that is general enough to post about (NB : I try to respond to as many questions as I can, but I’m traveling and can’t keep up, so in most cases I won’t be able to respond. I also don’t hand out (...)

4 nov. 2009 | 1 comment | Effect Measure

International

Ukraine : Swine flu panic

LEvko is astonished at the panic in Ukraine and the way over-the-top reaction from the government and politicians over the swine flu epidemic which has hit the country. There is even talk of the president establishing a state of emergency and possibly (...)

2 nov. 2009 | | Foreign Notes

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Swine flu parties : I doubt anyone is that dumb, but I’ve been surprised before

CDC is again warning parents not to send your children to a swine flu party. The idea is to provide them with immunity, like used to be done with chickenpox parties. It’s pretty hard to believe this is a live issue and CDC admits it doesn’t (...)

26 oct. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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Human swine flu in pigs

When swine flu appeared, the pork producers were keen to say there was no connection or relationship between pigs and swine flu (even though the virus’s genetic segments were all of swine origin). They didn’t want anyone to call it swine flu, (...)

21 oct. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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France gets the jab as flu vaccination starts

The campaign to vaccinate France’s population against "swine flu" (H1N1 or influenza A as it’s more commonly called here) began on Tuesday. And first in line to be injected are the one million or so health professionals working in (...)

21 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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Is "swine flu" the most politically incorrect phrase in the English language ?

I agree with one thing that Paul JJ Payack, president and chief word analyst of The Global Language Monitor says : “At this point it is becoming increasingly difficult to engage in any form of public dialogue without offending someone’s (...)

13 oct. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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Gilead wrestles with Roche for Tamiflu rights

The Foster City-based Gilead Sciences, best known for its AIDS drug Viread, notified Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche on Thursday that it was terminating the 1996 agreement that gave the Swiss company exclusive rights to make and sell Tamiflu. In (...)

13 oct. 2009 | | Ruth Schaffer

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Slapping Docs’ Hands for Not Washing Them

That’s the recommendation from the master of medical checklists Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins University and Robert Wachter of University of California at San Francisco, says the WSJ Health Blog. Lack of accountability is the reason why a whole (...)

6 oct. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

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Mutation found in swine flu virus ; what does it mean ?

A couple of days ago Dr. Marion Koopmans, chief of virology in the infectious diseases laboratory of the National Institute of Public Health, The Netherlands, notified the infectious disease community through the website/email list ProMed that two of (...)

2 oct. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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Swine Flu Fever

By the "Fever" in "Swine Flu Fever" I am referring to the wave of flu fear washing across the Middle East. The upcomming pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca may be a casualty : "TEHRAN/JEDDAH - As swine flu fears are growing, Iran has (...)

12 aoû. 2009 | | Yaakov Kirschen

International

Martial Law and the Militarization of Public Health : The Worldwide H1N1 Flu Vaccination Program

Global Research - by Michel Chossudovsky Militarization of public health in the case of emergency is now official "The flu season is upon us. Which type will we worry about this year, and what kind of shots will we be told to take ? Remember (...)

11 aoû. 2009 | | Dusty Murray

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Flu Vaccines : Who, Where, and How Much ?

In the Globe and Mail, Francoise Baylis asks the tough questions about how much swine flu vaccine to produce and who should receive it. In the US, our government has just decided that pregnant women should be among those to be included in the H1N1 flu (...)

11 aoû. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

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The hand washing/face mask paper on flu transmission

I have a reflexive skepticism about some conventional flu wisdom. There’s so much about flu we don’t know and even more we think we know that we find out we’re wrong about. But skepticism is an occupational hazard of epidemiologists. Our (...)

6 aoû. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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Revisiting the swine flu puzzle of 1976

There’s a swine flu pandemic well underway and efforts are being made to reconstruct how it started. But almost everyone who has been following this knows it’s not the first time a swine flu virus has transmitted from person to person. In 1976 (...)

4 aoû. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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Divisions in France of over dangers of H1N1 virus

There are two quite different perspectives that have appeared in France over the past couple of days on the same story: perhaps reflecting the attitude held by many people here and elsewhere over the real dangers associated with "swine flu" - or (...)

28 Jul. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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Tamiflu resistance puzzle

There have been three reported oseltamivir (Tamiflu) resistant isolates of H1N1 swine flu (added : and now a fourth in Canada) but with those exceptions all others have been sensitive to this oral antiviral. This is in marked contrast to the other H1N1 (...)

24 jui. 2009 | 2 comments | Effect Measure

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The socialised health "service" and the nature of man

The commies believed that in a post-capitalist society there would be a transformation in the nature of man. Economist’s talk about incentives were mute, they cried, since we’d all build as we would for ourselves. The response from Mises and (...)

24 jui. 2009 | | The Filter^

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Swine flu : prepping for tough times

We’ve been talking about the possibility of a flu pandemic here for four and a half years. The cliché during much of that time was that the right way to think of a flu pandemic was not "if," but "when." As long as no pandemic (...)

20 jui. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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Health Care Bill Will Fund State Vaccine Teams to Conduct ‘Interventions’ in Private Homes

TAKE ACTION HERE: Healthfreedomusa.org. CNSNEWS - Puppetgov. By Terence P. Jeffrey. There is a knock at the front door. Peeking through the window, a mother sees a man and a woman, both in uniform. They are agents of health-care reform. “Excuse me, (...)

17 Jul. 2009 | | Dusty Murray

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False precision and the state of health and science reporting

I’m not qualified to say if science and health reporting has gotten worse in recent years. Maybe I’m just paying more attention to how bad it often is now. My impression is that some reporters today are as good or better than we’ve ever (...)

8 jui. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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Testing for swine flu

The first cases of swine flu were diagnosed in the US in San Diego in mid-April. The discovery was serendipitous, the result of out-of-season US-Mexican border surveillance and use of a new diagnostic test at the Naval Health Research Center. When the new (...)

3 jui. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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More prepping for the swine flu pandemic

A few days ago we posted about hedge funds getting ready for a swine flu pandemic. At the time we wondered what other industries and businesses were getting ready. We don’t know the answer, but we are seeing more signs the message has gotten (...)

29 jui. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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Pandemic prep teachable moment

For years those concerned about the consequences of an influenza pandemic from an exceptionally virulent flu virus, like A/H5N1 ("bird flu") have despaired about motivating business, government and neighbors to take it seriously enough to make (...)

25 jui. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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