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The United States is failing to address its most urgent threat—biological proliferation and terrorism—concluded a report issued today by the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. In a news release yesterday, the commission also felt the Obama Administration has given appropriate high-level attention to the nuclear threat but [...]
Report: U.S. Failing to Address Urgent Biothreat
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
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Memo Exposes Mind-Numbing Actions of CDC
September 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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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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University of Michigan Places Restrictions on Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Due to Flammability
September 1st, 2009 · 7 Comments
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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CDC Recommends Against Multi-Dose Vials, But Opts to Use Them for Swine Flu Vaccinations
August 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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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Does Your Baby Have an Alcohol Problem?
July 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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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