Vaccines – Welcome to the Mind of a Writer

What’s in the Needle? Part 3 – Chimpanzee Virus plus a mysterious ‘adjuvant’

On: November 7, 2014

In: Biological Threats, Connecting Dots, Ebola, Emerging Diseases, Pestilence & Disease

[T]he race to discover an effective yet lucrative Ebola vaccine commenced in earnest about 10 years ago. Most of the research was funded fully or in part by such auspicious entities like BARDA (Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority) wing of DARPA (Defense Advances Research Projects Agency), the NIH (NationalContinue Reading

H3N2 Influenza outbreak among vaccinated sailors

By: Sharon

On: October 24, 2014

In: Avian Flu, Emerging Diseases, Pestilence & Disease

[T]his week’s MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) from the CDC included a puzzling report concerning a US Naval minesweeper. In February of this year, 25 sailors from the 102 member crew aboard the USS Ardent, an Avenger class minesweeper, began to complain of fever, chills, and cough. Doctors conductedContinue Reading

What’s in the Needle #2: Rabies and Ebola Combined

By: Sharon

On: October 23, 2014

In: Ebola, Emerging Diseases

[Y]ou might wonder whether or not I’ve added rabies just to put a ‘scare’ in my readers, but the truth is that the DoD, the NIH, NIAID, and Thomas Jefferson University have teamed up to produce a genuine vaccine candidate built on the rabies vaccine. In a way, it makesContinue Reading