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[PROVE Note before reading the below article: If you've
been wondering what the CDC has been up to with
the recent highly sensationalized mumps cases in Iowa and neighboring
states, this little blurb in a Reuters article hints at the CDC's ulterior
motive in trying to make a stink about the airline travelers. They are
trying to increase their power through misleading information and irrational
fear. MSNBC just reported that on the further interviewing of most people
with
cases - the majority had been fully vaccinated (MSNBC.com - "What's causing
the mumps outbreak?") Here is yet another example of vaccines not working as
the public had been told they would yet the CDC keeps making a public issue
about two people on an airplane and avoiding the question why the vaccine
didn't work and avoiding even more the fact that mumps is a
mild illness for the vast majority of the population. Be vigilant here and
really watch what they are doing because the CDC moves in baby steps to gain
power and funding - and they do it all through irresponsibly causing people
to be unnecessarily afraid. The reality is people are wising up to the fact
that vaccines cause harm to many people and they don't work in many more.
What better way is there for the CDC to force them on the public who doesn't
want them than to work in incremental steps to require them for air travel?]
[The CDC has been using a new system to track travelers who may pass viruses
on airplanes.
Penny Hitchcock, an infectious disease expert at the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center's Center for Biosecurity, said the
CDC had not explained fully why it was worried about the airline travelers.
"Warning the general public about the dangers of acquiring infection from
air travel is arguably irresponsible, unless supported by compelling
epidemiological evidence," Hitchcock said in an e-mail.
Other researchers at the Center have questioned CDC's plans for monitoring
international travelers in case of a pandemic of H5N1 bird flu."]
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Mumps outbreak concerns U.S. health officials
14 Apr 2006 02:33:24 GMT
Source: Reuters:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13326743.htm
Background FACTBOX: Cholera epidemic hits Guinea-Bissau
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Public health officials said on
Thursday they were concerned about an outbreak of mumps in the Midwest and
said some people may have been infected on airline flights.
More than 600 people were reported sick in Iowa with the virus, once a
common childhood illness but virtually eradicated with widespread use of the
measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.
"The state of Iowa has been experiencing a large mumps outbreak that began
in December 2005," the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said
in a statement.
The Iowa Department of Public Health said it was investigating 605 cases.
"This outbreak has spread across Iowa, and mumps activity, possibly linked
to the Iowa outbreak, is under investigation in six neighboring states,
including Illinois (four cases), Kansas (33 cases), Minnesota (one case),
Missouri (four cases), Nebraska (43 cases), and Wisconsin (four cases)," the
CDC said.
Mumps is an infection of the salivary glands caused by a virus. It causes
unpleasant illness including fever, headache, and swelling of the glands
around the jaw.
It can sometimes cause more serious complications including meningitis,
encephalisits, inflammation of the testicles or ovaries, inflammation of the
pancreas and permanent deafness.
It is transmitted by coughing and sneezing and is "about as contagious as
influenza", the CDC said. People can pass it along from three days before
they are ill.
The CDC said it was tracking two people who took nine flights in April and
asked anyone showing symptoms of mumps to report to state health officials
if they had been on the flights. The CDC has been using a new system to
track travelers who may pass viruses on airplanes.
Penny Hitchcock, an infectious disease expert at the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center's Center for Biosecurity, said the CDC had not
explained fully why it was worried about the airline travelers.
"Warning the general public about the dangers of acquiring infection from
air travel is arguably irresponsible, unless supported by compelling
epidemiological evidence," Hitchcock said in an e-mail.
Other researchers at the Center have questioned CDC's plans for monitoring
international travelers in case of a pandemic of H5N1 bird flu.
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