Friday, January 18, 2013

18 January - Vaccinations

Governor Patrick signs an Act Relative to Assa...
Governor Patrick signs an Act Relative to Assault and Battery on Health Care Providers. (Photo credit: Office of Governor Patrick)
English: PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 12, 2008) Storeke...
English: PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 12, 2008) Storekeeper Seaman Jorge Diaz inhales a flu vaccine aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). The flu vaccination is used to prevent severe cases of influenza and has recently been redesigned as an inhalant rather than an injection. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist Seaman Briana Brotzman/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: A table showing the World Health Orga...
English: A table showing the World Health Organization (WHO) influenza pandemic phases. This was cropped from file:FedFluPandemicResponse.png. The original is in the public domain, per the pandemicflu.gov website, and this crop is also released to the public domain. They request that you give attribution. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Avian flu vaccine development by reve...
English: Avian flu vaccine development by reverse genetics technique. Français: Diagramme en anglais montrant sommairement les étapes menant à la création d'un vaccin contre la grippe aviaire par la génétique inverse. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sludge drying bed
Sludge drying bed (Photo credit: Sustainable sanitation)

Flu vaccine attitudes abroad differ from U.S.

Only the U.S. and Canada actually encourage everyone older than 6 months to get the flu vaccine.
Apparently, not a single country in Europe asks the general population to seek that same kind of protection, according to Robb Butler, the World Health Organization technical officer in vaccine preventable diseases and immunizations in the organization's Europe office in the Netherlands.
That's because global health experts say the data aren't there yet to support this kind of blanket vaccination policy
In a contrast to U.S. policy, the World Health Organization recommends only six "priority populations" get "the flu jab," as it's called in Britain.
These six groups are nursing home residents, people with chronic medical conditions like asthma, the elderly, pregnant women, health care workers, and children from ages 6 months to 2 years
We have 53 countries in our region that all have different recommendations based on different studies and evidence, and the depth of evidence in Europe right now is pretty limited 
Michael Osterholm, director of the Minnesota Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance at the University of Minnesota, believes people should get the vaccine, but he worries that the current policy gives the impression the vaccine is more effective than it actually is.
"This enthusiasm to get more people vaccinated gets in the way of a critical look at the science," Osterholm said.
Osterholm co-authored "The Compelling Need for Game-Changing Influenza Vaccines," which came out last October. It is an exhaustive study of this country's vaccine war on flu.
Helmut Katz • a day ago
Sadly and again a lot of dis-information...
First of all, a mismatched vaccination on a normally functioning immune system is definitely much worse than no vaccination at all. A new strain of virus has it easier to enter the organism and to spread more efficiently if the immune system has been trained to fight with the wrong weapons (mismatched antigenic memory (Hoskins effect, aka original antigenic sin) or bad kind of reaction (cellular/humoral) rather than to be simply idle and balanced for any pathogen that may come (first line of defense by complement system immunity). Think now how children fight easily dangerous diseases for adults like measles (our immunologic memory induces many inefficient cross-reactions). Flu usually kills when the immune system overreacts (cytokine storm) or badly reacts (dysfunctional cellular immunity helping bacterial infection).
Now, as a rule, and as a university immunologist, I would vaccine for flu only the people who really need it (typ. insufficient cellular immunity). Generalized vaccination is a non-sense and only help to speed up mutations.
Also, generally speaking, and I am not talking about tetanus (clostridium) or meningitis (neisseria) where fighting the disease is too risky, people should be more aware that useless vaccination strongly modify the way your immune system reacts to other pathogens. Think twice about getting a shot, the risk could be much greater than the benefit...

 I missed the highlighted section first read through. The culturing of mutations is why the proliferation of routine antibiotic use is a public health disaster. Ditto use of germicide in contaminated fields, like routine handwashing. In the now missing Aug 13 2009 posts at opitslinkfest I recall contributions from a rancher/raw milk advocate and a retired Ohio farmer* which indicate cleanliness is important....but sterility imposed where it doesn't belong is worse than futile. 
Not that our food production system itself does not abuse antibiotics : food animals are routinely supplied antibiotics as growth stimulants. And yes, that has implications for those eating those animals. Other oddities included spreading sewage on crops...and even radioactive toxins : coal ash.
I couldn't locate Jim B. at Care 2 ( CowBoss has been away for years ) but recalled his links revolved around the Watchers   'Sewerage Sludge' was one of his main concerns : turning farming into an open air biolab for viral warfare delivered with the produce.

  • one - Home - The Watchers

    Index -- Public health effects from hazardous sewage sludge and effluent. Index -
    - Viruses (hazardous in sludge biosolids and reclaimed water into food and ...
    thewatchers.us/pages/one.html

The Gatekeepers is the unbelievable but true story of how the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency and University of Georgia willfully published false and misleading scientific data to protect
their own political and financial interests. In the process, they destroyed two of Georgia's oldest
and most productive dairy farms and a leading research scientist who was working in the public
interest. Yet, what happened in Georgia is only the proverbial tip of an iceberg below which hides
a concerted national effort by EPA, USDA, the wastewater industry, and a network of land grant
universities to literally farm out disposal of the Nation's hazardous wastes by disguising them as
environmentally beneficial organic nutrients. EPA's biosolids programs are built on a
foundation of false claims and scientific fraud − shielded by special interests reaping untold
profits from concealing the toxic ingredients in processed sewage sludges.http://www.sludgefacts.org/Ref108.pdf

 

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