Simple and effective preventative measure reduce spread up to 50%, even when worn “moderately”.
A new study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases finds theat ordinary face masks and hand hygiene can effectively reduce the transmission of influenza-like illness during flu season. In this study, researchers observed a reduction of influenza-like symptoms ranging from 35 to [...]

In a story that is sending shock waves around the globe, according to the head of health at the Council of Europe, the swine flu pandemic was oversold by drug companies that stood to make billions from the pandemic declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The world had a false swine flu pandemic over [...]

Conflict of interest issues raised.

More questions have been raised about the role of some key figure in the World HEalth Organization (WHO) played in the swine flu panic. A Finnish advisor on vaccines apparently concealed receiveing 6 million Euros for his research center from the vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline.
The Finnish adviser, Professor Juhani Eskola, [...]

The Canadian Globe and Mail reported Monday on a new study from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Laval University, according to the Globe the study, “… confounded infectious-disease experts in suggesting that people vaccinated against seasonal flu are twice as likely to catch swine flu.”
The study is “under review ” and researchers [...]

By Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center
The summer of 2009 revealed two inconvenient truths about vaccination: first, the Gardasil vaccine is not as safe for girls as the government, medical organizations and Merck have said it is; and second, the H1N1 influenza pandemic is not as serious as health officials are telling us it [...]