[PROVE April 2006] Recent Mumps Cases and Air Travel
[PROVE Note: 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."]
Mumps outbreak concerns U.S. health officials
14 Apr 2006 02:33:24 GMT
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13326743.htm
Source: Reuters
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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PROVE(Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education)
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