CDC Says One Thing, Does Another

After reading in a news report that Tom Gottlieb, the head of Australia’s top infectious disease organization, has serious reservations about the way H1N1 vaccine will be administered to people in his country, I became curious as to how officials in the United States plan to administer the vaccine. Not surprisingly, I learned that officials in both countries plan to use multi-dose vials.

For all of the details and an explanation of why this matters, click here.

Swine Flu Scare Makes a Comeback 33 Years Later

In 1976, the U.S. government implored all Americans to be vaccinated as “protection” against Swine Flu — and 46 million Americans took the shot, according to a report by Mike Wallace of CBS’s “60 Minutes“. Afterward, some 4,000 of those who took the shot filed claims for damages — up to and including paralysis and death — caused by the vaccine. And only one died from Swine Flu in 1976.

Wallace’s report, which aired on CBS, appears in two parts. Watch them here.