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A third wave of H1N1? We’ll know in a few weeks

Posted on January 13, 2010, 10:32 am, by Andrew, under Internet.

The predictions have been out there for some time that we would get a third wave of this most recent novel H1N1 pandemic.  Previous pandemics have behaved similarly, and the idea that H1N1 will ‘obey’ the general flu season is something that was shot to hell as it spread around during the last Summer.  Still, [...]

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Thiomersal (thermisol) in H1N1 vaccines, the silly debate.

Posted on November 4, 2009, 9:16 am, by Andrew, under Random News.

  It’s really quite a silly debate. Back in 1928, there was a doctor who was giving out some vaccine for diptheria.  He adminstered doses to 21 kids without a problem.  A few days later he gave another 21 doses from the same vial of vaccine to another 21 kids.  11 of them died in [...]

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