Bob McCarty Writes

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Recently, I received a copy of a memo outlining a handful of conversations about hand sanitizer products that took place in 2007 and involved a senior representative of a U.S.-based cleaning products manufacturer and an official at the Centers for Disease Control.  After [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A rather odd question came to mind after I began investigating the role of hand sanitizer in combating bacteria, germs and viruses amidst media-stoked fears that a 1918-like flu outbreak could surface this fall:  “Does your baby have an alcohol problem?”
Why?  Because, when applied per instructions, the ethyl alcohol contained in the vast majority of [...]

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Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta-area attorney whose fame as a carrier of a drug-resistant tuberculosis earned him attention in, including this one and this one, between June and September 2007, is back in the news tonight.  Why?  Because, according to Associated Press, he’s suing the Centers for Disease Control for invading his privacy.

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