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Wodarg notes that the agency declared the H1N1 pandemic based only on the new virus' transmissibility and did not take into consideration the severity of the strain. Wodarg blames the WHO for raising the alarm over a virus with little destructive potential, leading countries to embark on expensive mass-vaccination programs. He has organized a public parliamentary hearing on behalf of the Strasbourg-based human-rights group Council of Europe, titled "The Handling of the H1N1 Pandemic: More Transparency Needed?" The hearing, scheduled for Jan. 26, will explore the question of whether the WHO and governments overreacted to the threat...
Traditional vaccines work by introducing a killed or weakened version of a disease into the body, where the immune system spots it and cranks out antibodies against it. Then, if a wild strain of the pathogen comes along later - one that has the power to sicken or kill - the body is ready for it. The new approach is different. Developed by Rhoel Dinglasan, an entomologist and biologist at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, it would instead work within the mosquito gut. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...indication" would be hard to define. Of course, the traditional vaccine that would make the TBV acceptable doesn't exist yet either, but progress is being made on that front. Right now, for example, PATH MVI is testing a vaccine called RTSS, which reduced risk of infection for one strain of the disease at least 50% in late-stage clinical trials for 16,000 infants in Africa - not perfect, but still useful in places where 25% of infant deaths are caused by malaria...
This knowledge could one day help doctors better design drug therapies by allowing them to sequence patients’ viruses and predict which drugs the HIV strain would be the most likely to become resistant to in advance, according to Zhang. Such an application could make treatments much more cost-effective, she added...
Assembly speaker Karen Bass, a Los Angeles Democrat, says she is "highly troubled" by Schwarzenegger's proposals for further cuts to a social-welfare system under severe strain. Unemployment in many urban neighborhoods tops 20%, and the number of homeless women and children is growing. Additional cuts to the foster-care system and increased caseloads for social-welfare workers will put children's lives at risk, according to Bass. "Last year's budget left the safety net on life support," she says. "Now the governor is talking about disconnecting the respirator...