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Study links children's skin care products to hormone-disrupting chemical

Huey Freeman
Epoch Times
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:23 UTC
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A new study found for the first time that common skin care products used by young children may increase their exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals.

The results may help guide parents to limit their children's exposure to toxins that could harm their development, Michael Bloom, study leader and professor at George Mason University's College of Public Health, told The Epoch Times.

"We found associations between recent use of different skin care products and higher concentrations of phthalate and phthalate-replacement compounds," Bloom said in a press release.

Phthalates, often found in skincare products, can disrupt the endocrine system, potentially interfering with hormones. These chemicals may be added to skincare products to improve absorption, prolong fragrances, or make the product more lubricating.

Comment: Previously:

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Attention

Australia's excess mortality inquiry suppresses majority of submissions, omitting key evidence from record

Rebekah Barnett
Dystopian Down Under,
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
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Two thirds of submissions made to the Australian Senate's Excess Mortality Inquiry have been suppressed and key evidence omitted from its concluding report, calling the inquiry's integrity and findings into question.

The world-first inquiry set out to investigate why record-high numbers of Australians have died in recent years, including non-Covid deaths, at levels not seen since World War II.

On Friday, the Excess Mortality Inquiry committee handed down its report, concluding that Covid is the "key driver" of Australian excess mortality, both "directly and indirectly".
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Biohazard

Poliovirus that infected a Chinese child in 2014 may have leaked from a lab

Kai Kupferschmidt
Science.org
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 21:48 UTC
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© GettySamples destined for destruction at a Paris institute trigger a virological "detective story" Wild poliovrus now only circulates in Afghanistan and Pakistan. To reduce the risk of future outbreaks, researchers have committed to destroying poliovirus samples held in labs around the world.
Researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris working under strict biosafety conditions recently opened an old box that contained a virological time capsule: four poliovirus samples, each with a handwritten label on the vial, sent to the institute more than 60 years earlier by Albert Sabin, a giant in the field of poliovirus research.

The viruses had to be destroyed, as part of a global campaign to get rid of old poliovirus samples. But first, the Pasteur team would sequence them to preserve their genetic information.

Now, a paper about those sequences, published in Virus Evolution in July, has raised an unexpected and troubling possibility: A poliovirus that infected a 4-year-old child in China in 2014 may have originated in a research laboratory or a vaccine production facility.

Comment: Accidental leaks, and strange illnesses, reported near these research, and bioweapons, labs, are legion: Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon biolabs in Ukraine and the threat of ethnic bio-warfare

This investigation is notable given Israel's genocide in Gaza, the concerns of a polio outbreak there, and which led to an unprecedented - unprecedented for the diabolical Israeli regime - 'humanitarian' pause for a polio vaccination campaign on Gaza's children: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Syringe

So...What's the deal with Gaza's polio vaccination campaign?

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:03 UTC
Polio Vaccine Gaza
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Two weeks ago, the first case of polio was detected in Gaza for 25 years, leaving a ten month-old child partially paralyzed and forcing decisive action from the World Health Organization.

Doctors were dispatched to Gaza with over a million doses of polio vaccine, with the aim of vaccinating 640,000 children in record time.

Israel and Hamas even agreed to quote-unquote "humanitarian" pauses in the bombing for a few hours every day to get the vaccinations done.

The good news - according to the WHO - is that all these efforts have been successful so far, and they are actually vaccinating more children than they planned too.

...And the world breathed a sign of relief.

Thankfully the starving, homeless children of Gaza won't get polio as they crouch under the rubble of their homes praying the next batch of cluster bombs misses them.

Sometimes a story hits the news and you're initial reaction is simply, "Wait...what?"
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Syringe

Surprise, surprise: FDA authorizes new COVID-19 Vaccine without clinical data

Zachary Stieber
Epoch Times
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
COVID vaccine
© Joroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP via Getty ImagesA dose of Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine is prepared, in this file image.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized a new COVID-19 vaccine from Novavax, giving Americans an alternative to shots from Moderna and Pfizer.

Novavax's protein-based vaccine will be available soon after regulators granted emergency authorization to the Maryland-based company for the product.

FDA officials said that animal testing data supported the decision.

Comment: See also: There are no licensed COVID vaccines for kids under 12 — But CDC wants babies to get 3 Pfizer shots by age 9 months

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Bad Guys

There are no licensed COVID vaccines for kids under 12 — But CDC wants babies to get 3 Pfizer shots by age 9 months

Ray L. Flores II, Esq.Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
Children's Health Defense
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
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Nine-month-old babies must receive multiple doses of an unlicensed mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to be considered "up to date" with their COVID-19 vaccination, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The CDC's updated guidance, issued Aug. 30, states that children — as young as 6 months old — should get either two doses of the 2024-2025 Moderna vaccine or three doses of the 2024-2025 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

If getting the new Pfizer shot, the baby is supposed to receive the first dose at 6 months, the second dose three weeks later and the third dose at least eight weeks after the second dose — meaning, that by 9 months old, babies are supposed to have received three Pfizer shots.
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Syringe

France updates mpox's vaccination strategy

Clara Bauer-Babef
Euractiv
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
vaccine
© QINQIE99/ShutterstockThe majority of mpox cases are found in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Congo and Kenya.
France has updated its vaccination recommendations in the face of a rise in mpox cases in Central Africa linked to the clade I and clade Ib variants, despite the low risk of the virus being introduced into the country.

On Tuesday (September 3), the Direction Générale de la Santé (DGS) of the French Ministry of Labour, Health and Solidarity presented France's new vaccination strategy in response to the increase in mpox cases in Central Africa.

On 14 August, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in response to the emergence in Africa of a new variant of the mpox virus: clade Ib.

Comment: See also:

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Bacon

Vegan fad over? 'Most people I know who went vegan have gone back to eating meat'

Mattha Busby
Men's Health
Fri, 30 Aug 2024 20:43 UTC
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With vegan restaurants shuttering and celebrity soy boys publicly renouncing their ways, the once flourishing movement is showing signs of struggle. Is this the end of the plant-based boom?

Irvin St-Louis converted to veganism aged 21, back in 1996, long before the diet became a cultural phenomenon and everyone started eating avocados. The choreographer and personal trainer was impressed by reports of the plant-based diet's health benefits in books such as The China Study and as part of the Rastafarian principle of Ital, which promotes a vegetarian wholefood lifestyle. If it didn't come from a plant, it didn't make it on to his plate. 'I was dogmatic about veganism,' St-Louis says.

But nearly two decades of religiously avoiding animal products took a toll, he believes. 'I had heavy inflammation in my knees, tendinitis in my elbows and my lower back was killing me,' the 49-year-old says. These aches and pain may have simply been consequences of ageing, or general wear and tear. But, one day, in early 2017, he got turned on to Instagram accounts promoting carnivore diets, in which all plant-based foods are eliminated in a attempt to address chronic ailments. For him, that was when the vegan bubble began to burst.

Comment: Some people may actually do well on a vegan diet, but the numbers are vanishingly small. And the only way they do well is because of all the (artificial?) supplementation necessary to make up the nutrients they are missing the occur naturally in animal products. Without modern supports, they couldn't maintain what health they have.

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Syringe

Distrust in vaccines grows among U.S. adults, survey shows

Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
Children's Health Defense
Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
Vaccines
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U.S. Americans' trust in vaccines — especially COVID-19 vaccines — has dropped, according to a survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

The survey results detail the most recent wave of responses — collected in July — from a nationally representative sample of 1,496 adults, most of whom have been routinely surveyed in the project since April 2021. Roughly 100 of the adults were added after 2021 due to attrition of the survey's initial participants.

In addition to showing an overall decline in willingness to vaccinate, the results showed what an Annenberg Public Policy Center press release called a "greater acceptance of Covid vaccine misinformation."
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Syringe

UNICEF launches emergency tender for mpox vaccines


RT
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:26 UTC
mpox, mpox vaccine, monkeypox vaccine
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has initiated an emergency tender to procure mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, vaccines for the worst-affected countries.

It follows the recent surge in cases of the viral illness across multiple African nations, which led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare mpox a public health emergency of international concern, similar to how it approached Covid-19 in 2020.

UNICEF, in partnership with the Gavi vaccine alliance, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the Pan American Health Organization, the WHO, and other partners, made the announcement in a joint statement on Saturday.

It highlighted that, depending on manufacturers' production capacities, agreements could be made for up to 12 million doses through 2025. The WHO is in the process of reviewing information provided by vaccine manufacturers on August 23, with the evaluation for Emergency Use Listing expected to be finalized by mid-September.

"Addressing the current mpox vaccine shortage and delivering vaccines to communities who need them now is of paramount importance," Leila Pakkala, Director of UNICEF's Supply Division, stated.

Comment: Guess what's even more effective than a vaccine at preventing the spread of monkeypox:

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