Eradication of Measles in South Korea
…2000-2001 of 55,000 reported cases and seven deaths. Most of these infections occurred in children, indicating that vaccination was not sufficient and that circulation of measles virus continued. In 2001,…
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Should viral vaccines be made for profit?
…doses of vaccine that should have been available this winter. Another producer of influenza vaccine, Aventis, will supply 54 million doses to the U.S. A very different influenza vaccine is…
HIV, AIDS, and Condoms
…this report, but I have no doubt that it is entirely wrong. HIV-1 virions are very small, but latex is not sufficiently porous to allow the virions to pass through….
The Bioterror Boondoggle
…are third-world problems and not likely to get the attention of US pharma. In fact, I think all drug and vaccine development should be out of the private sector, but…
Titer is not a verb
…grammatically correct email. Titer is a unit of concentration. It is not a verb, and therefore it is incorrect to write ‘titer your virus’. You may ‘determine the titer’ or…
More vaccine bashing
Today the New York Times is complaining about two vaccines against human papillomaviruses, Gardasil from Merck and Cevarix from GlaxoSmithKline. These vaccines were introduced two years ago to prevent infections…