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View Post: Complementary Medicine & Pharmacists « Laika's MedLibLog
6 hours ago by laikaspoetnik  
Pediatric Vaccination and Vaccine-Preventable Disease Acquisition: Associations with Care by Complementary and Alternative Medicine Providers Maternal and Child Health Journal DOI: 10.1007/s10995-009-0519-5 ...
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View Post: Factors influencing immunization rates - The Clinical Advisor
3 Nov 2009
However, many other vaccine-preventable diseases persist and in some cases have increased in prevalence because of lowered immunity in the general population. Childhood vaccines do much to provide lifetime immunity to certain diseases, ... 2 The specific goal is for 90% of all children to have completed the recommended series of immunizations by age 2 years. Vaccination rates of 90% are generally sufficient to prevent the spread of communicable disease via “herd immunity. ...
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View Post: Games with Words: Vaccination and the Assault on Health
23 Oct 2009 by coglanglab  
Children have to reach a certain age in order to get vaccines. What protects babies is that everyone older is healthy (i.e., vaccinated). So adult vaccine-refuseniks made it through infancy partly thanks to everyone else getting vaccinated ... Sensible parents, who have a complete understanding of the very high risks of contracting preventable diseases vs. the minuscule risks of vaccination side effects would never expose their children to the greater harm of the diseases ...
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View Post: » Australian Skeptics announce the Bent Spoon for 2009.
28 Nov 2009 by Maggie  
For the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudo-scientific piffle, the Bent Spoon went to Meryl Dorey and the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN). ... a reporter that “we didn't die from (these diseases) thirty years ago and we're not going to die from them now”, juxtaposted alongside footage of babies gasping for breath as the journalist detailed the story of the death of Dana McCaffery from the vaccine preventable disease, whooping cough. ...
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View Post: Childhood vaccinations peak in 2009, but uneven distribution ...
3 Nov 2009
These children are estimated to be most at risk from vaccine-preventable diseases. The report declared vaccinations, with the exception of safe water, as being the greatest factor in mortality reduction: “The stakes are high. ...
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13 Nov 2009 by ProMED Mail  
However, mumps incidence commonly peaks in the winter (2), and vaccine-preventable diseases have spread from religious communities to the general population during the peak transmission season (7). Of those patients in this outbreak ... Although vaccination is not considered effective postexposure prophylaxis for mumps, non-immune contacts should be vaccinated with measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine to prevent risk from subsequent exposures. Any suspected mumps case ...
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View Post: Learn Why Adults Should Get Vaccinated
Women's Health Magazine
11 Nov 2009 ...
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View Post: A TIME'S MEMORY: Research Articles Abstracts - November 28, 2009 Issue
28 Nov 2009 by Giuseppe Michieli  
Increased frequencies of H5 HA-specific antibody secreting and memory B cells could be observed within 7 days of re-vaccination. Furthermore, these responses were cross-reactive to both H5 HA variants, but not H3 or avian H6 HA strains. These observations suggest prior vaccination against H5 ... National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia. ...
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View Post: Muzings by Muz » Blog Archive » The VACCINATION PHARMABIZ
17 Nov 2009 by admin  
Despite increasing immunization rates in Oregon children, pertussis holds the dubious distinction of being the only vaccine-preventable disease increasing in reported incidence. ... an Australian physician and world authority on homeoprophylaxis, the use of homeopathic medicines for specific disease prevention. He has been teaching homeopathy since 1990 and has written eight books on the subject. Vaccination? A Review of Risks and Alternatives, now in its' fifth edition, ...
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