by Annie De Groot | Jan 23, 2014 | Thinking Out Loud -Blog
Bacon is going to be more expensive this year, due to the emergence of a new virus that recently arrived in the US from China and is spreading from farm to farm, killing piglets and forcing farmers to use ‘feed-back’ (feeding pigs their own excrement) in a desperate...
by Annie De Groot | Jan 22, 2014 | Thinking Out Loud -Blog
When you pull your chair up to bacon and grits in the morning, you are probably not thinking about the pork farmer, standing knee deep in piglets, on her farm. But you should. Because her heart is breaking right now. Her piglets are dying from a new viral disease,...
by Annie De Groot | Jan 4, 2014 | News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
Add two previous reports of the low immunogenicity of H7N9 HA, one from NovaVax, stating that their unadjuvanted vaccine is only 6-16% effective and Novartis – showing only 6% seroconversion for their unadjuvanted HA vaccine) to this report – and you have...
by Annie De Groot | Dec 8, 2013 | News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
Date: Sun 8 Dec 2013 Story communicated by and reposted from: ProMED-mail South China Morning Post 19 people who came into contact with Hong Kong’s 2nd H7N9 flu patient are being kept in isolation in a hospital and at a holiday camp. They include 13 Tuen Mun...
by Annie De Groot | Nov 22, 2013 | Thinking Out Loud -Blog
With flu season upon us the opponents of vaccination are starting to wake up and preach the evils of vaccination. Now at EpiVax we are 100% pro-vaccination and we work hard to improve vaccine efficacy (and safety) so that diseases can be prevented around the world....
