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Doc who gave vaccines "OK" vanishes with $2 million

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It's still good, right? Photo: UNICEF/Sverige

Crooked, CDC-backed vaccine doc, Poul Thorsen — he of the fudged resume — is in the wind, with $2 million that doesn’t belong to him.

This is the guy whose research slammed that of others finding possible links between preservatives in vaccines, and neurological damage to children:

“The results of the studies, that there was no link between vaccines containing mercury and autism, formed the foundation for the conclusions of several Institute of Medicine reports.

In a statement Aarhus University officials said Thorsen forged documents supposedly from the CDC to obtain the release of $2 million from the university.”

via NBC 11 Atlanta Reports: Vaccine Researcher Flees with $2M – AGE OF AUTISM.

Google the flu? The feds will see you

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His Google searches may have given him away. Photo: CC/Daniel Horacio Agostini

Prepare to be reading a hell of a lot about “infoveillance” and “infodemiology,” and for the major news outlets to continue making nice to Google.

That’s because the biggest “infodemiology” experiment to-date is about to take place, now that we are at the end of flu shot season.

Thanks to a new Google product, Google Flu Trends federal watchers will track Americans’ illnesses this winter, based upon the search engine terms they use.

Any flu-stricken sap searching Google for a cure will find himself under the microscope.

Where people bang out searches for “sniffles” or “flu,” an outbreak might be seen by the feds as taking hold in that community.

Several searches from a single street for “hacking” and “high fever” might trigger a quarantine.

Google is making the usual assurances that the data will be aggregated, anonymized, etc…

But I know of no regulatory body authorized to march into Google’s offices, to insure the company scrubbing anyone’s personally identifiable information.

I can see why the CDC would covet such data: it will give epidemiologists specifics (in addition to hospital admissions data) on the course of an outbreak.

Such a project will also show the feds which communities haven’t gotten the “everyone must get a fllu shot” memo.

See the New York Times report.

CDC: Widespread needle reuse at clinics

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(RediClinic is one of the “retail” healthcare clinics turning up in malls and pharmacies. Image: RediClinic website)

CDC head Dr. Julie Gerberding tells the AP (excerpt, below) that a recent finding of unsafe practices at a Nevada healthcare clinic “could represent the tip of an iceberg.”

40,000 patients might have been exposed to HIV or hepatitis, due to needle reuse and other unsafe practices at the clinic.

The quickie clinic model, meanwhile, is catching on, for folks who want to get a look-see while waiting for a prescription, or one of the hundreds of vaccine jabs they will get in their lifetimes.

MinuteClinics, for example, are appearing at CVS pharmacy locations throughout the United States.

MinuteClinics is headed by the former CEO of Arby’s. — mb

The Associated Press: CDC Warns of Safety Problems at Clinics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., met Monday with CDC head Dr. Julie Gerberding, and on a media conference call after their meeting both strongly condemned practices at the clinic.

Health care accreditors “would consider this a patient safety error that falls into the category of a ‘never event,’ meaning this should never happen in contemporary health care organizations,” said Gerberding.

“This is the largest number of patients that have ever been contacted for a blood exposure in a health-care setting. But unfortunately we have seen other large-scale situations where similar practices have led to patient exposures,” Gerberding said.

New Vaccine against Deadliest Strain of Avian Flu

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Pandemic flu is inevitable, says this guy (below). CDC’s track record with the seasonal flu, which has already killed more than 20 U.S. children this year. The CDC has recreated the 1918 pandemic flu virus, however.

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(Vaccine researcher Ted M. Ross, and a transmission electron micrograph of influenza virus particles, or virions. Images: UPMC and CDC)

New Vaccine against Deadliest Strain of Avian Flu Tested by University of Pittsburgh Scientists – UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Ted M. Ross, Ph.D., lead author of the study and assistant professor, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh. “To stem the spread of a potential pandemic, we need stockpiles of vaccines available that can be readily adapted to enhance the immune system’s response to new strains.”

A future flu pandemic is inevitable because of the virus’s ability to continually reinvent itself and the lack of broad immunity in humans, according to Dr. Ross. Influenza pandemics have occurred three times throughout modern history with deadly consequences. The first, the Spanish Flu of 1918, caused more deaths than World War I.