Monkey pox — are smallpox vaccinations from decades ago protective?
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Comments (68)John, it is not important to me how long your posts are. Nor do I come into threads where you have posted to say "You must have a lot of time on your hands", as you have repeatedly done in this forum. It's sort of rude. The "Hatch thing" is no conspiracy, just business as usual in Congress. Hatch's relations with the supplement industry have been reported on in the major U.S. media, as noted in a report from the National Council Against Health Fraud: "Orrin Hatch takes two media hits. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), whose 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act has greatly weakened the FDA's ability to protect consumers, has been rebuked for suggesting that the FDA has not done enough to protect the public from ephedra's dangers. Calling Hatch's remarks "a dazzling display of hypocrisy," Time senior science writer Leon Jaroff said, "The time has come for drastic revision of DSHEA, the re-empowerment of the FDA and the rejection of cynical proposals by legislators like Orrin Hatch." [Jaroff L. It's time to rethink ephedra regulation. March 5, 2003] Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times noted: From 1998 to 2001, while Hatch's son Scott worked for a lobbying firm with close ties to his father, supplement industry clients paid the company more than $1.96 million, more than $1 million of it from clients involved with ephedra. In 2002, Scott Hatch opened his own lobbying firm in partnership with two of his father's close associates. So far, the firm has received at least $30,000 in retainers from the National Nutritional Foods Association and a major manufacturer of ephedra (Twinlab) , both of whom were clients of the previous firm. During the past decade, Orrin Hatch has received nearly $137,000 in campaign contributions from the supplements industry. [Neubauer C and others. Senator, his son get boosts from makers of ephedra. Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2003]" You can find out more, if you are interested, by doing a Google search on the terms "Orrin Hatch supplement industry". Enjoy....See MoreA good virus?
Comments (19)As I read the article, there is no intention of treating steaks, chops and roasts with the bacteria eating virus. Cooking kills lysteria and salmonella. The intended use for the stuff is pre-sliced luncheon meats and sausages, things not usually heated nor cooked. A little more than 30 years ago, the neighborhood grocery store here went out of business. The reasons were many, the age of the owner/butcher, new regulations and a strike by the factory workers and the union's demands for free food for the out of work strikers. The new regulations stated that every so often ( seems like it was every 2 hours, but perhaps it was every 4 hours) the grinder had to be shut down and cleaned, the wooden chopping block had to be cleaned, scraped and doused with chlorine, all counters and knives and saws washed and disinfected, and then meat cutting could begin again. There wasn't a lot of meat packaged in the case. You ordered it cut or ground on the spot. I remember the butcher holding up a loin of beef and his knife and asking "how thick"? ham was shaved to order, balogna came in a chunk and you ordered it sliced thick or thin and only what you bought was sliced. Meat probably cost a larger proportion of a days wages then, but I don't remember worries about food poisioning but for long picnics in the park on a hot day. No talk of "food bourn illnesses" nor irridating food and certainly not bacteriophage viruses! Times have changed, our ways that food is distributed has changed and the time between the chunk of sausage and the slices in your refrigerator is a lot longer now. New ways to keep that pre sliced, pre processed, injected with "solution" meat need to be welcomed. As I said earlier...it is really of no concern to me, personally as I don't eat that stuff! Back to old methods of canning foods. Before the time of the Civil War, when glass canning jars with screw on lids were invented, people preserved food in quart stone ware jars. The early ones had a groove and a tin lid that fit into the groove, and I have heard it told that melted tallow was used to pour into the groove to seal the jar, and others have said wax was used. Some recommended paper between the food and the tin lid, others said oiled cloth. Also there were crockery jars with crockery lids that fastened with wire bales. I don't know if they sealed with a rubber ring, or with a wax seal. Somewhere, packed in a box, I have examples of these types of jars. These were not the "crock" things that were used to preserve kraut, pickles, salted meat and corned beef, these were canning jars made of stoneware. Well I remember a few years ago all the hype about irridiated foods! "you mean radiation? Like in the atom bomb? Not me!!" Don't be too quick to knock something that will make our food supply safer. Linda C...See MoreNew cervical cancer vaccine - You & Your Daughter
Comments (36)I think the vaccination is a good idea. "Approximately 20 million people are currently infected with HPV. At least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives. By age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. About 6.2 million Americans get a new genital HPV infection each year." Yes, the condom idea sounds great, but what happens when a woman decides to get pregnant and her husband carries HPV? He probably won't have any symptoms, so he wouldn't know. Now the woman who has been so careful has HPV and an increased risk of cancer. The virus could also affect the babies vocal cords during the delivery....See MoreBreakthrough cases among vaccinated persons
Comments (29)Those that are immuno-suppressed such as those on chemo have been advised to wear masks in public for decades, nothing new about that. But to expect those that have been vaccinated to continue to wear masks tells people that the vaccines are ineffective. Israel has proven that they are effective, they have closed all their covid wards due to lack of patients. To continue punishing and inconveniencing those fully vaccinated with unnecessary requirements will reduce the rate of vaccination. We don't know what level of herd immunity is required to end new infections but we must be close due to the rapid drop in numbers. Funny, last year most posters here vehemently denied that herd immunity was a solution. The numbers from "experts" for achieving herd immunity are going to be overly cautious and much higher than necessary, the CYA mentality....See Morepetalique
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