University of Michigan Places Restrictions on Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Due to Flammability

If other colleges and universities across the country choose to follow the University of Michigan’s lead, a recent decision by officials at the Ann Arbor school could put a huge dent in the bottom lines of several companies in the $100-million hand sanitizer industry. It could also make centers of higher education across the country more safe. Read all about it here.

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.

Brown prevented other parents of learning of Swine Flu victim!

The Times reports that our scumbag of a Prime Minister delayed other parents of children at the Torbay school learning of the outbreak for almost four hours in order for him to make the announcement at Prime Minister's Questions, read here.

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Swine Flu. Late in 1975, four Army recruits fell ill with a new strain of influenza, dubbed "swine flu," that was believed related to the pandemic Spanish influenza of 1918 that killed more than half a million Americans. The swine flu virus was isolated in 1976, and the Public Health Service began preparing for a nationwide immunization program that fall. When more than 200 people came down with a respiratory illness after attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia, the immunization program was put into effect. Almost 50 million Americans were inoculated between October and the middle of December.

U.S. confirms first swine flu-related death

A 23-month-old Texan toddler is believed to be the first person to die of swine flu outside of Mexico.

Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, confirmed the child's death on Wednesday.

However, by November there were also hundreds of reports of a rare condition known as Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which left its victims paralyzed. Horribly, the cause was traced to the swine flu vaccine. Moreover, researchers had proved that the "Legionnaires disease" was not swine flu, and there had not been any reports of swine flu in the United States since the four recruits had become ill a year earlier. The Public Health Service announced suspension of the immunization program on December 16, 1976. More than 1,000 people eventually developed Guillain-Barre Syndrome and the government paid more than $84 million in liability claims.