The Anthrax Vaccine

Author : Institute of Medicine,Medical Follow-up Agency,Committee to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309182744

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The Anthrax Vaccine by Institute of Medicine,Medical Follow-up Agency,Committee to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine Pdf

The vaccine used to protect humans against the anthrax disease, called Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed (AVA), was licensed in 1970. It was initially used to protect people who might be exposed to anthrax where they worked, such as veterinarians and textile plant workers who process animal hair. When the U. S. military began to administer the vaccine, then extended a plan for the mandatory vaccination of all U. S. service members, some raised concerns about the safety and efficacy of AVA and the manufacture of the vaccine. In response to these and other concerns, Congress directed the Department of Defense to support an independent examination of AVA. The Anthrax Vaccine: Is It Safe? Does It Work? reports the study's conclusion that the vaccine is acceptably safe and effective in protecting humans against anthrax. The book also includes a description of advances needed in main areas: improving the way the vaccine is now used, expanding surveillance efforts to detect side effects from its use, and developing a better vaccine.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Medical Follow-up Agency,Committee to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309083096

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The Anthrax Vaccine by Institute of Medicine,Medical Follow-up Agency,Committee to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine Pdf

The vaccine used to protect humans against the anthrax disease, called Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed (AVA), was licensed in 1970. It was initially used to protect people who might be exposed to anthrax where they worked, such as veterinarians and textile plant workers who process animal hair. When the U. S. military began to administer the vaccine, then extended a plan for the mandatory vaccination of all U. S. service members, some raised concerns about the safety and efficacy of AVA and the manufacture of the vaccine. In response to these and other concerns, Congress directed the Department of Defense to support an independent examination of AVA. The Anthrax Vaccine: Is It Safe? Does It Work? reports the study's conclusion that the vaccine is acceptably safe and effective in protecting humans against anthrax. The book also includes a description of advances needed in main areas: improving the way the vaccine is now used, expanding surveillance efforts to detect side effects from its use, and developing a better vaccine.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789241547536

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Anthrax in Humans and Animals by World Health Organization Pdf

This fourth edition of the anthrax guidelines encompasses a systematic review of the extensive new scientific literature and relevant publications up to end 2007 including all the new information that emerged in the 3-4 years after the anthrax letter events. This updated edition provides information on the disease and its importance, its etiology and ecology, and offers guidance on the detection, diagnostic, epidemiology, disinfection and decontamination, treatment and prophylaxis procedures, as well as control and surveillance processes for anthrax in humans and animals. With two rounds of a rigorous peer-review process, it is a relevant source of information for the management of anthrax in humans and animals.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Committee on Health Effects Associated with Exposures During the Gulf War
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 030907178X

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Gulf War and Health by Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Committee on Health Effects Associated with Exposures During the Gulf War Pdf

The men and women who served in the Gulf War theater were potentially exposed to a wide range of biological and chemical agents. Gulf War and Health: Volume 1 assesses the scientific literature concerning the association between these agents and the adverse health effects currently experienced by a large number of veterans.

Author : Gary Matsumoto
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786728060

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Vaccine A by Gary Matsumoto Pdf

In this provocative look at the US military from the Persian Gulf War through the 2003 invasion of Iraq, investigative journalist Gary Matsumoto contends that an anthrax vaccine dispensed by the Department of Defense was the cause of Gulf War Syndrome and the origins of a massive cover-up. Matsumoto calls it the worst friendly-fire incident in military history. A skillfully-woven narrative that serves as a warning about this man-made epidemic, Vaccine A is a much needed account of just what went wrong, and why.

Author : Theresa Koehler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3540434976

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Anthrax by Theresa Koehler Pdf

Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax in all mammals, including humans. Depending upon the route of entry of B. anthracis spores, infection can result in cutaneous lesions, which are readily treatable with antibiotics, or systemic lethal disease, which is nearly always fatal. The continuing worldwide incidence of anthrax in animal populations, the risk of human infection associated with animal outbreaks, and the threat of use of B. anthracis as a biological weapon warrant continued investigation of this organisms and its virulence mechanims. Furthermore, B. anthracis is an excellent model system for inverstigation of virulence gene expression by bacteria.

Author : Richard A. Hersack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Anthrax
ISBN : UCBK:C079895799

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The Anthrax Vaccine Debate by Richard A. Hersack Pdf

Author : Committee to Review the CDC Anthrax Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Research Program,Medical Follow-Up Agency,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309168953

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An Assessment of the CDC Anthrax Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Research Program by Committee to Review the CDC Anthrax Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Research Program,Medical Follow-Up Agency,Institute of Medicine Pdf

In 1998, the Department of Defense (DoD) began a program of mandatory immunization against anthrax for all military personnel. As the program proceeded, however, some military personnel and their families raised concerns about the safety and efficacy of the anthrax vaccine. Acknowledging both the need to protect military personnel and the concerns about the anthrax vaccine, congress directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to carry out a research program on its safety and efficacy. To assist in the development of this program, CDC requested the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a committee to review the completeness and appropriateness of the research program. In An Assessment of the CDC Anthrax Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Research Program, the committee makes an overall assessment of the CDD research plan and reviews the specific studies proposed by CDC in the three areas of efficacy, safety and acceptability. The committee also notes additional research needs that became evident following the bioterrorist events of 2001 and makes recommendations about the leadership of the research program.

Author : Richard A. Hersack
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Anthrax
ISBN : 9781428990333

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The Anthrax Vaccine Debate by Richard A. Hersack Pdf

Author : R. P. Misra,Mitsarā,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9251029202

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Manual for the Production of Anthrax and Blackleg Vaccines by R. P. Misra,Mitsarā,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Author : Christopher A. Shaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781510758513

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Dispatches from the Vaccine Wars by Christopher A. Shaw Pdf

Enter the trenches of the bloodiest battles you've never heard of: the Vaccine Wars. Professor Christopher A Shaw discovered, after a deep-dive literature search on aluminum impacts on humans and animals, that aluminum hydroxide, an adjuvant in the anthrax vaccine, had a significantly negative impact on motor functions and reflexes of patients in the literature. After that finding, he did what scientists are supposed to do and kept following the leads. However, organizations like WHO dismissed him immediately. Those powerful organizations either knew what he knew, that aluminum vaccine adjuvants were harmful, or they simply didn’t care. In either case, two possible reasons for the lack of response became clear to Shaw and his colleagues: dogma and money. The first had served to convince most of the world’s medical professionals that Shaw had to be wrong because, after all, “the science was settled.” And, behind much of this was the naked fact of how much money vaccines brought in to cover the pharmaceutical industry’s profit margin. The combination of those two have the finger prints of various Big Pharma companies smudged all over the question of vaccine safety, which included the demonization of both scientists and lay scholars who raised even the tamest questions about safety and the push for vaccine mandates around the world. After these events, Shaw decided to dig deeper. Dispatches from the Vaccine Wars is a comprehensive look at the origin of vaccination and the oversight of vaccines by various regulatory bodies in the United States and in Canada. The book provides not only the official view on vaccines safety and efficacy, but also provides a critical analysis on which such views are based. Aluminum and other compounds that may contribute to autism spectrum disorder are discussed at length. Professor Shaw also analyzes the corporate influences driving vaccine uptake worldwide and provides an in depth look at the push for mandatory vaccination. Dispatches from the Vaccine Wars evaluates the extent to which vaccinology has become a cult religion driving attempts to suppress divergent scientific opinions. Finally, the book delves into the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means for the future of us all.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Prepositioned Medical Countermeasures for the Public
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309218085

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Prepositioning Antibiotics for Anthrax by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Prepositioned Medical Countermeasures for the Public Pdf

If terrorists released Bacillus anthracis over a large city, hundreds of thousands of people could be at risk of the deadly disease anthrax-caused by the B. anthracis spores-unless they had rapid access to antibiotic medical countermeasures (MCM). Although plans for rapidly delivering MCM to a large number of people following an anthrax attack have been greatly enhanced during the last decade, many public health authorities and policy experts fear that the nation's current systems and plans are insufficient to respond to the most challenging scenarios, such as a very large-scale anthrax attack. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response commissioned the Institute of Medicine to examine the potential uses, benefits, and disadvantages of strategies for repositioning antibiotics. This involves storing antibiotics close to or in the possession of the people who would need rapid access to them should an attack occur. Prepositioning Antibiotics for Anthrax reviews the scientific evidence on the time window in which antibiotics successfully prevent anthrax and the implications for decision making about prepositioning, describes potential prepositioning strategies, and develops a framework to assist state, local, and tribal public health authorities in determining whether prepositioning strategies would be beneficial for their communities. However, based on an analysis of the likely health benefits, health risks, and relative costs of the different prepositioning strategies, the book also develops findings and recommendations to provide jurisdictions with some practical insights as to the circumstances in which different prepositioning strategies may be beneficial. Finally, the book identifies federal- and national-level actions that would facilitate the evaluation and development of prepositioning strategies. Recognizing that communities across the nation have differing needs and capabilities, the findings presented in this report are intended to assist public health officials in considering the benefits, costs, and trade-offs involved in developing alternative prepositioning strategies appropriate to their particular communities.

Author : David Salisbury,Mary Ramsay,Karen Noakes
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0113225288

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Immunisation against infectious diseases by David Salisbury,Mary Ramsay,Karen Noakes Pdf

This is the third edition of this publication which contains the latest information on vaccines and vaccination procedures for all the vaccine preventable infectious diseases that may occur in the UK or in travellers going outside of the UK, particularly those immunisations that comprise the routine immunisation programme for all children from birth to adolescence. It is divided into two sections: the first section covers principles, practices and procedures, including issues of consent, contraindications, storage, distribution and disposal of vaccines, surveillance and monitoring, and the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme; the second section covers the range of different diseases and vaccines.

Author : Nicholas H. Bergman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118148082

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Bacillus anthracis and Anthrax by Nicholas H. Bergman Pdf

The study of Bacillus Anthracis remains at the forefront of microbiology research because of its potential use as a bioterror agent and its role in shaping our understanding of bacterial pathogenesis and innate immunity. Bacillus Anthracis and Anthrax provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the organism, ranging from basic biology to public health issues associated with anthrax. This book will be a premier reference for B. Anthracis and anthrax to microbiologists, medical and public health professionals, bioterror research and preparedness, immunologists, and physiologists.

Author : Jonathan D. Moreno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136605567

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Undue Risk by Jonathan D. Moreno Pdf

From the courtrooms of Nuremberg to the battlefields of the Gulf War, Undue Risk exposes a variety of government policies and specific cases, includingplutonium injections to unwilling hospital patients, and even the attempted recruitment of Nazi medical scientists bythe U.S. government after World War II.