Hundreds Exposed to Measles at 4 US Airports (Symptoms)

Measles Outbreak Risk in Woman's Flight Path: Washington D.C., Baltimore, Denver, AlbuquerqueHundreds of travelers may have been exposed to measles aboard commercial flights and at four US airports. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) a woman infected with...

Family to Receive $1.5M+ in First-Ever Vaccine-Autism Court Award

"The first court award in a vaccine-autism claim is a big one. CBS News has learned the family of Hannah Poling will receive more than $1.5 million dollars for her life care; lost earnings; and pain and suffering for the first year alone. In addition to the first year, the...

Haiti Relief Work: Threat Of Diseases As Aid Is Hampered

Haiti earthquake relief work is ongoing, but Haitians are now faced with a threat of diseases as aid supplies are hampered by the country's aged infrastructure. Dead bodies are still lying unattended in Haiti's...

Agricultural agents wage war on bugs, plants and disease

A mother from Ecuador who came to visit her pregnant daughter living in Newark was in for a rude shock when the comfort food she brought all the way from Ecuador for her daughter was confiscated by custom agents at the Newark Liberty International Airport."All Alba Lugardo...

Measles outbreak in Utrecht

Utrecht health services urge parents to vaccinate children after 16 cases of measles are reported since August.AMSTERDAM -- The local health service says it recorded 16 cases of measles in Utrecht...

Measles 'endemic' in Britain - OFFICIAL WARNING

This disease had virtualy been wiped out in Britain and now due to the releuctance of some parents to vaccinate their children after the MMR vaccine scare it's once again endemic. The same could happen with TB...

Georgia Health Dept. looking for those who attended Church conf. in Washingto...

Individuals who attended a "Generation Church Conference" in Kirkland, Washington, in late March of this year.  Georgia health officials said Friday that they are trying to contact some state residents who attended a church conference near Seattle where they may have...

18th confirmed Measles case in Washington State

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A Eighteenth "18th" case of measles has been confirmed in Grant County in Eastern Washington, and "it's possible" some people in King County also may have been exposed. Officials can confirm all...

Measles outbreak at 99 confirmed cases & rising in the U.S.

Measles (Rubeola) has reemerged with 99 confirmed cases in ten states this year, alone. In six states with on going cases, Arizona, Illinois, New York, Michigan, Washington, and Wisconsin. While California,...

Vaccine rule stokes fears over autism

Children in New Jersey's public schools and day cares must get two new vaccines by September, state health authorities recommended Monday over objections by parents who fear that immunizations can cause...

More Indonesian vaccines win WHO recognition

""DTB-HB vaccine is the ninth vaccine made by PT Bio Farma which has received the WHO recognition. The other eight vaccines produced by PT Bio Farma which have also received a similar recognition are DT, DTP, TT,...

Japanese students quarantined in Banff hotel

Yikes. Make sure you've been vaccinated for measles before you head up to Banff..."The quarantine of about 130 people, mostly Japanese high school students, is strictly precautionary, Dr. Judy MacDonald, a medical officer of health with the Calgary Health Region, said Monday."

None dare call it reason, but amnesty will do for the time being

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door"  <---  21st Century interpretation: ...

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