Showing posts with label Vaccines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vaccines. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

California: Hundreds Of Kids Sent Home From School Due To New Vaccination Law

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Thursday, May 26, 2016

The lethal violation of the nation's most basic public health protocols.



...In a frenzied rush to bring as many non-English-speaking Third World aliens to the country as possible before his presidency ends in a few months, Obama is allowing Syrian war migrants and refugees to be brought into the country without first undergoing proper medical examinations, a violation of the nation's most basic public health protocols.

“Tuberculosis is one of the most lethal infectious diseases in history,” said Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and surgeons. “It is easily transmitted, say on a public bus [and] increasingly, it is becoming highly resistant to all our antibiotics,” she said....
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

CDC Official Calls Obama Worst President, Amateur, Marxist After Influx of Illegal Alien Minors

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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Hollywood anti-vaxxers now hate Gov. Jerry Brown

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

From death threats to holocaust warning, California vaccine bill an extraordinary fight

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

The State of CA has injected itself into the doctor-parent relationship; lawmakers can’t see how creepy this is.



...The unspeakable issue at the root of Pan’s 2012 bill was and still is the influx of children from other countries into California’s public schools, who bring with them new strains of measles, mumps, chicken pox and flu bugs, among other communicable diseases. Children who have recently traveled out of the country also bring home infectious diseases.

But it’s not politically correct to address that problem. Instead the Legislature wants everyone else to get vaccinated....
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

California Parents Having ‘Measles Parties’ to Infect Their Unvaccinated Kids



◼ KTXL Sacramento via Washington Free Beacon

◼ Marin mom says the Measles party rumors are "offensive" and wants to set the record straight. - Kevin Fagan and Erin Allday/SF CHRONICLE
For the past week, the 43-year-old Marin County woman has been savaged as the mom whose comments launched a national furor over “measles parties” — her life turned upside down by a media happy to stereotype Marin as a hippy-dippy haven, and her reputation turned into a social-media plaything for people eager to blow hard about a rumor that turned out to be pure baloney.

She wants to set the record straight....
◼ No, There Are No ‘Measles Parties’ in Marin County, California - HEALTHLINE

It all began with a Facebook post from Julie Schiffman, a Marin County mother of two unvaccinated children.

Schiffman wrote about a conversation she had with a mother of vaccinated children. That mother knew about a family with a child who had measles.

She asked if Schiffman was interested in contacting the family as a way to naturally infect her 5-year-old and 8-year-old with measles. Schiffman said “absolutely not.”

A health columnist for KQED television saw the post and contacted Schiffman. The columnist then used the anecdote to lead into a column about the debate over whether to intentionally infect unvaccinated children.
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Friday, February 6, 2015

How do we deal with the false perception that liberals are more inclined to trust science than conservatives?

◼ When liberals ignore science - David Harsanyi/Human Events

The New York Times claims that the vaccine controversy we’re all talking about raises important questions about “how to approach matters that have largely been settled among scientists but are not widely accepted by conservatives.”

Well, here’s another question: How do we deal with the false perception that liberals are more inclined to trust science than conservatives? Also, how do we approach the media’s fondness for focusing on the unscientific views of some conservatives but ignoring the irrational — and oftentimes more consequential — beliefs of their fellow liberals?

Though outing GOP candidates as skeptics of science may confirm the secular liberal’s own sense of intellectual superiority, it usually has nothing to do with policy. However, if you walk around believing that pesticides are killing your children or that fracking will ignite your drinking water or if you hyperventilate about the threat of the ocean’s consuming your city, you have a viewpoint that not only conflicts with science but undermines progress. So how do we approach matters that have been settled among scientists but are not widely accepted by liberals?

Take vaccines. There is little proof that conservatives are any less inclined to vaccinate their children than anyone else. If we’re interested in politicizing the controversy, though, there is a good case to be made for the opposite....

while Republicans are evenly divided on whether genetically modified foods are unsafe, Democrats believe so by a 26-point margin. Liberals across the United States — New York, California, Oregon and Massachusetts recently — have been pushing for labeling foods to create the perception that something is wrong with them. Science disagrees.

Hydraulic fracturing is as safe as any other means of extracting fossil fuels. It creates hundreds of thousands of jobs. It provides cheaper energy for millions of Americans. It has less of an environmental impact than other processes. It means less dependency on foreign oil. It helped the economy work its way out of a recession. So 62 percent of Republicans support science, and 59 percent of Democrats oppose it. Numerous scientific studies — one funded by the National Science Foundation, which debunked the purported link between groundwater pollution and fracking — have assured us that there’s nothing to fear.

It doesn’t end there.... KEEP READING
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Q: There’s a perception that vaccine refusal is especially common among affluent, well-educated, politically liberal parents—is there any truth to that?











◼ So, About the MSM’s Vaccination Obsession This Week - Ed Driscoll/PJ Media

◼ “Why the ‘Prius Driving, Composting’ Set Fears Vaccines,” - Science magazine’s 2011 interview with Seth Mnookin, the author of The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear.



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Monday, October 27, 2014

Govt. Researchers: Flu Shots Not Effective in Elderly, After All





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Friday, October 24, 2014

A New Ebola Vaccine? Thank Dick Cheney



When George W. Bush signed the Project BioShield bill into law, he claimed Cheney "was the point man in the White House" on the legislation.
◼ How Dick Cheney Joined the Fight Against Ebola Without Even Trying - Bloomberg
Thomas Geisbert spent the ’90s scraping together funds to work on an Ebola cure. Occasionally, he’d get enough to test a potential vaccine in primates, but the monkeys always died. There was just never enough money.

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Dick Cheney helped change that. Cheney, then the vice president, said he feared assaults by bioterrorists could be far more devastating than what happened that day, and became an advocate in the George W. Bush White House for the appropriation of billions of dollars to stop deadly pathogens. Congress agreed, funds began flowing to scientists like Geisbert and breakthroughs followed.

At least seven drugs now being tested -- including some used to treat Ebola victims in the U.S. -- grew from biodefense measures first approved after Sept. 11. The National Institutes of Health budget for studying potential bioterrorism agents has grown to $1.6 billion from $53 million in 2001, according to Crystal Boddie, an associate with the UPMC Center for Health Security in Baltimore, Maryland.
◼ The U.S. Is Working on an Ebola Vaccine — And You Have Dick Cheney to Thank - Policy Mic
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Thursday, August 7, 2014

How the experimental Ebola serum is being grown inside tobacco plants:



◼ For years, scientists have been looking for cheaper and faster ways to make vaccines, including tinkering with what sounds like an unlikely source: Tobacco plants. In fact, the highly experimental serum given to the two American Ebola patients was created using this novel technique. - Gizmodo

Whether for vaccines or serums, the basic idea is to turn tobacco plants into protein factories. Tobacco plants aren't naturally inclined to make human-like proteins, of course, so it takes some clever genetic engineering. The experimental Ebola serum, ZMapp, was developed at small startup called Mapp Biopharmaceutical and manufactured at a Kentucky facility owned by Reynolds American—yes, the same tobacco giant that makes Camels. Presumably, they do know a thing or two about growing tobacco.

The serum itself is a mixture of three antibodies, or proteins that our immune systems make to bind to and neutralize invading pathogens. To obtain antibodies for the Ebola virus, scientists infected mice and harvested their antibodies. The mice antibodies have to then be "humanized" by swapping out mouse-specific parts for their human equivalents. This isn't easy work, but it's a pretty well-established technique.

Where we get into unfamiliar territory is mass producing these antibodies that have been painstakingly harvested and modified. That's where tobacco plants come in. The genes for the antibodies were slipped into a virus that specifically infects tobacco plants. As viruses do, they take over the plant's cells, forcing them to start making the antibodies. The last step is just harvesting the tobacco leaves and extracting the proteins....

◼ Inside the Isolation Wards That Keep Us Safe From Ebola - Gizmodo

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