Immunology

Measles And Fatal Encephalitis: The Anti-Vax Movement Before COVID-19 Was Still Dangerous

Despite apparent beliefs on social media today, the modern anti-vaccine movement did not begin with the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. For decades prior to that, wealthy elites who believed that supplements and organic food were medicine led the world in denyin ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 30 2023 - 1:32pm

Better SIR May Better Predict How Infectious Diseases Spread

SIR, shorthand for Susceptible people, Infected people, and Recovered people, modeling is, along with R0, a rule of thumb for disease epidemiology but it failed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and with three coronavirus pandemics since 2003 they are the new ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2023 - 5:02am

Healthy Lifestyle Prior To Infection And Risk Of Long COVID In Healthcare Workers

An epidemiological look at 1,981 women who reported a positive SARS-CoV-2 test found that those with pre-infection healthy lifestyle had a substantially lower "risk" of the post–COVID-19 condition known as 'long COVID.'   It is just cor ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2023 - 8:03pm

Flu Vaccination Rates Haven't Gone Up Due To The COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 has done little to boost vaccination rates against other viruses, according to a new analysis. In a recent survey, just over 50 percent said they had received a flu vaccine, unchanged in a representative national panel from the comparable period l ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2023 - 9:43am

Polio Still Exists And COVID-19 Showed Why WHO May Make It Impossible To Kill

Smallpox is no longer with us, but what gets left out of United Nations history is that smallpox was eradicated in spite of the World Health Organisation saying it could never happen, not due to UN leadership. It was driven by US advocates who went around ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 6 2023 - 2:40pm

SARS-CoV-2 Infection May Mean Need For A CD8+ T Cell Response Booster

A recent study found that vaccination with two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine resulted in immune cell response considerably lower in people with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection than those without. The level of this key immune cell that targets t ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2023 - 11:34am

Women And Chronic Lyme Disease

Chronic lyme disease does not exist, but if you say it does long enough, a scholar will begin to study it, and then others will cite 'emerging evidence', and journalists will 'teach the controversy', and soon enough doctors who don' ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 25 2023 - 12:13pm

Malaria-Causing Parasites Continue To Evolve In Africa- So Must Pesticides

White environmentalists in rich European countries still maintain a kind of benevolent colonialism over Africa, telling those countries Europe won't buy their food unless they use no science in its production- while ignoring that organic farming for t ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2023 - 12:27pm

Leading The Developed World In Anti-Vaccine Beliefs: France

Thanks to public shaming of wealthy progressive elites on the coast, and even pressuring the Governor of California to accept science the way he long claimed he does and ban the arbitrary exemptions that led to some schools with only 25 percent of kids- th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 11 2023 - 2:35pm

Chewing Gum For Nausea: Science Or Hype?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, chewing gum had a bit of a resurgence. Though gum companies disavow any health benefits- they like being in the candy aisle- people have always used it off-label for various benefits and did so to generate a response against p ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 22 2023 - 9:49am