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Medical panic or trolling for dollars? West Nile questions
Look at any state or local website run by a public health authority and you will see information, glaring warnings, about the the dangers of West Nile virus. West Nile is an illness transmitted by mosquitoes that has been seen in humans in the United States for about 12 years. It’s an import, from overseas. While searching for information about whooping cough, pertussis, case numbers on various sites I began to notice the “West Nile panic“. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Medicine, Original writing, Public Health issues
Mumps outbreak points to vaccine woes
Those of us in the Baby Boom generation know mumps as one of several childhood illnesses that we all got. Mumps, German measles, measles and chicken pox were illnesses that nearly all of us had contracted by the time we were ten or eleven. All of these diseases now have vaccines, and in New York State, you must have been vaccinated for them before being allowed into school. Vaccines are funny things. They are intended to provoke an immune response so that when the real germ arrives, your body responds and prevents the illness. Maybe it’s people who are funny, because every vaccine does not work in all of the people. The mumps vaccine seems to be effective in only 79% to 95% of patients. Segue to late June 2009, at a … Read entire article »
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Disease outbreaks in Upstate New York
July 9th, 2010 | Comments Off
Here are three recent articles on this topic, covering three different illnesses. Follow the link. Whooping cough cases continue to rise in Upstate New York New York is at the peak of its Lyme Disease season Mumps cases decline in upstate and New Jersey, still high in New York City … Read entire article »
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