Tainted Polio Jabs - Did Australian Govt Knowingly Release Them?
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Australia - The Federal Government will investigate a report that a contaminated polio vaccine, which has since been linked to cancers like mesothelioma, was knowingly released in the 1960s by the then government.
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Britain's former culture minister Chris Smith, a Labour Party lawmaker, has publicly admitted to being HIV ( news - web sites )-positive. Smith told the weekly Sunday Times he has had the disease, which causes ...
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Last week, the Chiron Corporation, which manufactures close to half of America&#39;s influenza vaccine supply announced a delay in shipping its Fluvirin influenza virus vaccine, due to the possibility of contaminated doses.
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Canada suspended use of three batches of a mumps vaccine on Wednesday after five people fell ill in the midst of a vaccination campaign in the western province of Alberta.
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in some cases by the boatload -- in search of flu vaccine. With a US shortage caused by contaminated vaccine and
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A19 of the Nov. 23, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. This was the Department of Health&#39;s advice yesterday to the public over the
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The company that makes half the nation&#39;s supply, Chiron Corporation, has found four million tainted samples in its factory. It&#39;s postponing shipments of 50 million doses of vaccine until they&#39;re checked for safety.
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Austrlia&#39;s chief medical officer has moved to reassure people vaccinated against polio in the 1950s and &#39;60s they are not at increased risk of cancer.
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Thousands of people are to be told they may have been exposed to vCJD through contaminated blood products.
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A Victorian aged care home has been sanctioned after claims by staff that it covered up a gastroenteritis outbreak and endangered the health of 54 patients.
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Nearly 20 years ago, the World Health Organization and its partners launched an ambitious program to eradicate polio by the end of the millennium. That deadline passed and another was missed in 2005 &#151; and polio still strikes about 2,000 people a year, mostly children.
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Merck recalls 1.2 million doses of a children's vaccine.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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A VACCINE factory, once run by a Labour Party donor, that shut in October because of contaminated flu jabs had been causing serious concern for years, The Times has learnt.
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A horse has been put under quarantine after testing positive for a rare sexually transmitted infection. The horse is in isolation in the Newmarket area, the home of UK horse racing, after being found to have Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA).
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The number of parents having their children vaccinated with the MMR jab has remained static, according to latest figures. In the second quarter of the year, 88% of two-year-olds had the injection - no change over the first three months.
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Some of Australia's top jockeys and trainers, including 11-times Melbourne Cup winner Bart Cummings, have been banned from racetracks in an effort to stop the spread of equine flu, officials said.