June 2011
10 posts
Warning from India: Rabies vaccines bought from... →
(from a discussion of two patients who completed rabies vaccination series after dog bites and yet developed rabies - m.)
…”There are government registered rabies vaccination centres in India where the vaccine administered would be genuine. But vaccines bought in a pharmacy might not be genuine or be inactive.
“About 15 years ago when I was running a virology diagnostic service...
CDC director worries about impact of budget cuts... →
Rob Stein, WashPost: What is the biggest challenge facing the agency?
Thomas Frieden, CDC director: CDC’s budget was cut by $740 million between fiscal ’10 and fiscal ’11. That’s an 11 percent reduction in our budget authority and the lowest budget authority CDC has had since fiscal 2003. We’ve had to make very difficult and painful choices that are resulting in program reductions and...
Independent (UK) on ag antibiotics. No new news,...
The Independent (UK) has a major suite of stories this morning on antibiotic overuse in farming. (I can only see it on the web but people on the ground say the dead-tree version used its entire pp.1, 2 and 3.) Reading them, there is nothing in them that people who care about this issue will not already know (“threatens human health,” “pursuit of cheap protein,”...
Wow. Cholera in 63yo Brooklyn man, no Haiti... →
CHOLERA - USA: (NEW YORK): REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
Date: Thu 16 Jun 2011
From: Larry Lutwick MD, ProMED Bacterial Disease Moderator
On 12 Jun 2011, a 63-year-old insulin-dependent diabetic, African-American male was admitted to one of our affiliated hospitals [in Brooklyn, NY] with profuse, watery diarrhea for 4...
Severe reactions, deaths from Cipro? A pointer to... →
Patients who say they’ve suffered severe adverse reactions to a common antibiotic are calling for action to prevent others from experiencing a ‘frightening’ number of alleged physical and mental side effects.
The victims, who say they were poisoned by ciprofloxacin, want more research into the drug’s side effects, greater education of health professionals and clearer warnings for...
