Baxter, same company that unleashed tainted avian flu vaccines, recalls 300,000 flu vaccines

(Jonathan Benson)   Baxter Healthcare Corp. has announced it is recalling roughly 300,000 doses of its Preflucel influenza vaccine due to what it says is an excessive number of adverse events. Baxter is the same drug company that was caught inserting Avian Flu Virus into flu vaccines back in 2009 (http://www.naturalnews.com/025760.html). The UK’sDaily Mailreports that a [...]

US awards $215 million pacts for flu vaccines made with insect cells, e.coli

28 Feb 2011 Drug makers Novavax Inc. and VaxInnate Inc. have won contracts worth a combined $ 215 million to develop flu vaccines for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In the wake of the[ir] swine flu pandemic, the World Health Organization has said health authorities need to ramp up the speed and [...]

Flu vaccine biotech gets $3.8M from DARPA

Medicago gets $ 21 million from US Department of Defense to make flu vaccines from tobacco plants –(NC) Medicago, a biotechnology company that develops flu vaccines from tobacco plants, has received a milestone payment of $3.8 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This is the second payment from $21 million that DARPA, an [...]

Children told to be tested for HIV after flu vaccines reused

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) suggests children who received tampered vaccines be tested now and again six months from date of second dose for blood-borne pathogens like Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV 12 Apr 2011 A clinic in Northern Colorado is advising parents of children who received a pediatric flu shot [...]

Children told to be tested for HIV after flu vaccines reused

FORT COLLINS – A clinic in Northern Colorado is advising parents of children who received a pediatric flu shot from their offices to get tested for some blood-borne diseases including HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C after their vaccine syringes were shared between patients. Med Peds Clinic of Fort Collins sent out a letter on [...]