Valid evidence does not support universal influenza vaccination for pregnant women, the LTE objections are unfounded. The observational evidence is less valid than that from RCTs: important safety signals in all the RCTs require high...
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After weeks of brooding about the Donahue article linking flu shots to miscarriages (Vaccine 2017;35:5314) it was with a sense of relief that I read Rob Wipond’s narrative of media attempts to sweep a serious vaccine safety issue under the...
Read moreFollowinginfectionwithaninfluenzavirus,infectedorrecentlyrecoveredindividualsbecometransientlysusceptible to excess bacterial infections, particularly Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus Source and full...
Read moreChildren from childcare centres were recruited to study the effect of flu vaccine. One group was unvaccinated, one group partially vaccinated and one group fully vaccinated. Influenza-like illnesses 105 children had influenza-like viruses out of...
Read moreThe flu season is back along with annual vaccination campaigns. But controversy builds as the British Medical Journal (BMJ) questions if flu vaccines are effective and whether patients are given enough information to make an informed choice. In...
Read moreOn September 24, 2012, petitioners filed a petition under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-10-34 (2012), alleging that FluMist, which their son L.A. received on December 29, 2010, caused him seizures and encephalitis...
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A Las Vegas Man lost his ability to walk, speak & see days after getting the #FluShot Doctors diagnosed him w/ Guillain-Barre syndrome a.k.a GBS. His family says the Flu shot triggered it & the CDC confirms a link, calling it extremely...
Read moreIt is hard to overstate the public health fears generated by the threat of swine flu in 2009. The world had been bracing itself for a flu pandemic for years and the prospect of a flu that ‘jumped species’ seemed to pose a particularly...
Read moreAbingdon Surgery sent the texts to patients who qualify for free seasonal vaccines, stating matter of factly that the incentivised seasonal vaccine programme ‘provides a valuable source of income’ for the practice. However a patient group...
Read morePublic Health England (PHE) has today (Wednesday, 18 July 2018) published data on the effectiveness of the flu vaccine in the 2017 to 2018 season. The data show that overall, flu vaccine was 15% effective in all age groups. However, effectiveness...
Read moreMORE cases of flu will occur with live flu vaccines. ‘Using recently observed low LAIV effectiveness values, fewer influenza cases will occur if LAIV is not used compared with having LAIV as a vaccine option.’ Abstract: American...
Read moreFlu virus is mutating into other strains and the vaccine has not been sufficiently attenuated, with the result that there was a 3-fold increase in flu. See study: PLoS One. 2018 Apr 17;13(4):e0195611. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195611...
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