Why do we still use Sabin poliovirus vaccine?
The Sabin infectious, attenuated poliovirus vaccines are known to cause vaccine-associated paralysis in a small number of recipients. In contrast, the Salk inactivated vaccine does not cause poliomyelitis. Why are the Sabin vaccines still used globally? The answer to this question requires a brief visit to the history of poliovirus vaccines.
The inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) developed by Jonas Salk was licensed for use in 1955. This vaccine consists of the three serotypes of poliovirus whose infectivity, but not immunogenicity, is destroyed by treatment with formalin. When prepared properly, IPV does not cause po...
Source: virology blog - September 10, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information attenuation IPV OPV polio poliomyelitis reversion Sabin Salk vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis vaccine-derived poliovirus vapp VDPV viral Source Type: blogs
Shedding poliovirus for 28 years
An immunodeficient individual has been excreting poliovirus in his stool for 28 years. Such chronic excreters pose a threat to the poliovirus eradication program.
Since its inception in 1988 by the World Health Organization, the poliovirus eradication program has relied on the use of the infectious, attenuated vaccine strains produced by Albert Sabin. These viruses are taken orally, replicate in the intestine, and induce protective immunity. During replication in the gut, the Sabin strains lose the mutations that prevent them from causing paralysis. Nearly every individual who receives the Sabin vaccine strains excretes so...
Source: virology blog - September 3, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information agammaglobulinemia chronic immunodeficient polio poliomyelitis poliovaccine poliovirus reversion Sabin Salk shedding vaccine-derived poliovirus VDPV viral Source Type: blogs
How Aggressive are Your Student’s College Vaccination Policies?
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College campuses vary in regards to their vaccine policies. The meningitis vaccine is the most commonly required vaccination for all incoming freshmen, based on the recommendations of the CDC. Several other vaccinations are required and recommended, with much variation by individual colleges. Most universities provide a religious exemption for students, but some do not. It is worthwhile to investigate what your university vaccine policies are, in addition to the exemptions that exist for colleges in which your student has an interest.
Learn More to Make Your Own Informed Vaccination Choices
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Source: vactruth.com - September 3, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Top Stories Top Picks Michelle Goldstein Logical Meningitis Mandatory Vaccination U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meningococcal disease Vaccine Exemption Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) University of Was Source Type: blogs
A collection of polioviruses
In midsummer 1986, five years after starting my poliovirus laboratory at Columbia University, I received a letter from Frederick L. Schaffer, a virologist at the University of California, Berkeley, asking if I would like to have his collection of poliovirus stocks. He was retiring and the samples needed a home, otherwise they would be destroyed. Of course I jumped at the opportunity to have a bit of virology history.
Three boxes full of dry ice arrived in the laboratory in August 1986. They contained sixty-six containers of different polioviruses that Dr. Schaffer had collected over the years. All three poliovirus serotype...
Source: virology blog - August 12, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information Charles Armstrong Frederick L. Schaffer Igor Tamm Lansing poliovirus renato dulbecco Sabin Salk stocks strain collection tubes viral Source Type: blogs
The Kenyan Catholic Bishops are at it again, this time spreading fear of the polio vaccine
There’s a delightful meme going around Facebook right now, featured above, that portrays five African women, fists raised, all wearing aprons proclaiming “Kick out polio!” Accompanying the meme is a message from the American Academy of Pediatrics celebrating that yesterday marked one full year since the last case of polio was recorded on the continent… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 12, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Religion antivaccine Kenyan Bishops Kenyan Catholic Doctors' Association polio United Nations Wahome Ngare World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
TWiV 348: Chicken shift
On episode #348 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent and Rich discuss fruit fly viruses, one year without polio in Nigeria, and a permissive Marek’s disease viral vaccine that allows transmission of virulent viruses.
You can find TWiV #348 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 2, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology drosophila evolution fruit fly herpesvirus Marek's disease nigeria permissive vaccine polio polio eradication poliomyelitis selection transmission viral virulence Source Type: blogs
A doctor’s personal story of vaccine hesitancy
Before I was a doctor, I was a dad. My oldest daughter was two years old when I started medical school, so I did a little bit of parenting without the benefit of any medical knowledge at all. I remember her 2-month visit well. It was one of the few visits that I was able to make, and my baby girl was getting her first set of shots (after leaving the hospital). I’ll be honest; I hadn’t given it much thought. I was fully immunized as a child, and I’m pretty sure I was fully re-immunized when I signed my life over to the U.S. Navy.
It wasn’t that I didn’t love my child — I did. And I still do. My girls are ama...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 21, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Chad Hayes, MD Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
The CDC Made These Two Radical Changes and 30,000 Diagnoses of Polio Instantly Disappeared
The graph is from the Ratner report (1), the transcript of a 1960 panel sponsored by the Illinois Medical Society, on which sat three PhD statisticians and an MD, met to discuss the problems with the ongoing polio vaccination campaign.
The polio vaccine was licensed in the U.S. in 1954. From ‘50 thru ‘55, the striped and clear portions of the bars represent about 85% of the reported cases, or 30,000 per year, on average. Those cases were automatically eliminated by two radical changes the CDC made to the diagnostic parameters and labeling protocol of the disease as soon as the vaccine wa...
Source: vactruth.com - July 5, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Shawn Siegel Tags: Logical Shawn Siegel Top Stories Acute Flaccid Paralysis Dominion Council of Health Illinois Medical Society National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Ratner Report Salk Vaccine vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) Source Type: blogs
Will Governor Brown Take the Risk as the African-American Community Says NO to SB277?
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Will Governor Jerry Brown think twice and really risk the wrath of the black community? Will he even read Mrs. Sullivan’s letter or care about the many religious groups opposing vaccinations due to their ingredients?
It appears that more governments worldwide are mandating vaccinations on a daily basis and parents are completely powerless to stop them. Who are these people who make all the decisions, and what right do they have to impose their largely unproven theories that ALL vaccinations are safe and effective for ALL children?
Let’s face it, it does make you wonder what their real agenda is, doesn’t it...
Source: vactruth.com - June 16, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Logical Top Picks Mandatory Vaccination SB 277 vaccine mandate Source Type: blogs
How was Henrietta Harmed?
The HeLa LegacyI recently had the pleasure of meeting two of Henrietta Lacks’ descendants when I participated in a panel discussion with her granddaughter Kimberly Lacks and her great-granddaughter Veronica Spencer at Metropolitan Community College, Longview’s Spring Convocation on April 16th, 2015. The story of Henrietta Lacks was chronicled in the best-selling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. This African-American woman, who died in 1951, is the source of the famous HeLa cells. These cells, obtained from a biopsy of Henrietta’s cancerous cervix, are unique; they are immortal ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 14, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
4 Month-Old Infant From Tennessee Passed Away After Given 7 Vaccines
Parents in Memphis, Tennessee, are mourning the loss of their baby girl Ja’Liyah Cortize Turner, after she passed away in her sleep, less than four days after receiving seven vaccines. Her mother Quavia felt pressured into getting her daughter further vaccinated, even though she didn’t want to, because her daughter had a bad reaction from the round of vaccines given to her earlier.
Ja’Liyah’s autopsy report did not mention the vaccines even though she still had the knots on her legs at the injection sites. Her cause of death was ruled “Unknown, Undetermined.” The autopsy stated Ja’Liyah had no significant...
Source: vactruth.com - June 3, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories dtap Hepatitis B vaccine Infant Mortality Pneumococcal PCV Polio Vaccine Rotavirus Vaccine Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
A Truthful Vaccine Consent Form – That No Mom Could Ever Sign
The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.(1)
Those are the closing words of the first tenet of the Nuremberg Code - informed consent – and make no mistake about it - from the most personal of parental perspectives, vaccination’s a macabre experiment, every time: no parent can be certain that a vaccine won’t permanently disable her child.(2) Egregiously, the administering doctor or nurse - or CVS pharmacist - in no wa...
Source: vactruth.com - May 25, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Shawn Siegel Tags: Logical Shawn Siegel Top Stories informed consent Nuremberg Code Ronne study Vaccine Consent Form Source Type: blogs
Michigan Baby Dies, Pathologists Confirm Vaccines Responsible
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It is very clear that vaccine-related deaths and injuries are being intentionally hidden. Parents of vaccine-injured children are doing their own investigations and coming forward more, seeking the truth denied to them by health officials.
Inform your friends, family and neighbors that this is going on, that children are dying from the vaccines. Be brave. Help preserve your fundamental right to choose what gets injected into you or your child’s body. Making good medical decisions can only be done when you are informed.
Our hearts go out to Danny and his family and all of the other precious children who have su...
Source: vactruth.com - May 14, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories cytokine storm DTaP vaccine Elijah Daniel French L.J. Dragovic M.D. MMR vaccine Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
Health Cooperation In The New U.S.-Cuban Relationship
Four months after the surprise announcement of his determination to normalize relations with Cuba, President Barack Obama is rapidly translating that wish into reality, with the cooperation of Cuban counterparts and widespread support among Americans. On April 11, the Summit of the Americas featured the first meeting of the two countries’ presidents in over fifty years. Three days later, even amidst a struggle with Congress over a possible nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration announced it will remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, a step Carl Meacham, Director of the Center for Strate...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 29, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: J. Stephen Morrison Tags: Featured Global Health Bill Frist Cuba cuban health care Raúl Castro U.S.-Cuban relationship Source Type: blogs
