http://www.msf.org/en/article/india-patent-office-dashes-hopes-affordable-pneumonia-vaccine #vaccines
Coffee Phobia?
I just saw this article about a new phenomenon. Some people see round shapes that resemble rounds shapes of infectious diseases, and cause stress and anxiety. Never heard of it before. #smallpox, #vaccines http://www.hindustantimes.com/more-lifestyle/coffee-bubble-phobia-what-is-it-and-why-do-some-people-have-it/story-cHaw59MCi2UL2cGVfOhHqN.html
Just because someone can re-create a dangerous virus doesn’t mean one should re-create it! Certainly some World Bodies should regulate this to prevent terrorists and unscrupulous persons from launching a dreaded disease. #Vaccines, #VaccinesWork http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/how-canadian-researchers-built-poxvirus-100000-using-mail-order-dna
I wrote my memoir on Smallpox eradication in India about the two years -1975-77 that I worked in isolated villages in India’s states of West Bengal and Rajasthan. I spoke openly of caste discrimination and sexism. Over the forty years since my time in India, I’ve been told that caste does not play a role …
Anti-vaxxers have embraced social media
What I find astonishing is that Wakefield, who admitted that he made up data in the MMR article that he published – had his medical license revoked in the UK BUT STILL spreads lies on social media. https://health.spectator.co.uk/anti-vaxxers-have-embraced-social-media-were-paying-for-fake-news-with-real-lives/
Meningitis C Outbreak!
For yet another year, Nigeria and Niger are facing severe outbreaks of meningitis C. Both countries are part of the ‘meningitis belt’, a region that stretches across the continent from Senegal to Ethiopia, and is particularly affected by the disease during the dry season. From 13 December 2016 to 14 May 2017, a total of 13,943 suspected cases, and …