Are these doctors quacks or what?

Add comment November 8th, 2009

 

What’s going to happen if a patient of one of THESE SO-CALLED DOCTORS dies of the malady a vaccine could have prevented?

Is flu-vaccine delay Obama’s Katrina?

11 comments November 2nd, 2009

 

 Some people are likening the delay in production of H1N1 vaccine on President Obama’s watch to the problems dealing with Hurricane Katrina on George W. Bush’s watch.

 But even some conservatives are coming to Obama’s defense in this matter. Check HERE and HERE.

Let’s find a better way to manufacture vaccines

12 comments October 29th, 2009

 

 Tom Lyons NAILS IT.

 An excerpt:

 Beneath all of the anger and frustration surrounding the current flu vaccine supply problem is a simple fact - as we gear up to fight a new flu strain in our first pandemic winter in 40 years, we employ a really old technology to make flu vaccines. The nation needs to find a better option.

 The basic way we make flu vaccines has changed little since the 1950’s. It relies on hen’s eggs. Each year, a seasonal flu vaccine is developed to cover three strains of flu that are circulating. And, each year the flu viruses change a little bit, requiring the production of a new vaccine annually. Manufacturers use separate eggs to brew vaccine to cover each strain, so that means that one dose of vaccine requires at least three eggs to produce. This method has sufficed in most years; indeed, there’s a surplus of flu vaccine at the end of most flu seasons.

 But the egg process is too slow to allow for quick response to a pandemic.