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CONTROVERSY CONTINUES The National Autism Association argues that the research focuses on too few subjects. The CDC attributes the slightly higher rate of tics in thimerosal-exposed boys to the study's design, while critics point to autism. Still, the overall results should placate parents worried about the effects of vaccines. A more extensive CDC study of thimerosal and autism is due next year...
...recalls have triggered a wave of phone calls from other worried parents and pediatricians, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But whether more kids actually have elevated blood levels of lead won't be known until October at the earliest, when the CDC updates its quarterly data. High levels of lead interfere with the development of a child's nervous system. Lead can cause cognitive losses, learning disabilities, behavioral problems, delayed growth and seizures...
...CDC is spearheading a federal task force, which includes the Commerce Department and Consumer Product Safety Commission, focusing on how to control the lead hazard in imported toys and other consumer products. In the meantime, Binns hopes that looking at toys will serve as "a good prompt to look at your entire home." Research shows that 2 out of 3 homes built before 1940 have lead in a hazardous condition...
...done everything they could and nothing worked - it was all doom and gloom and dread and nothing to do but throw up our hands in despair," says Dr. Martin Cetron, director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and a senior author of the study. "This study gives us real reason for optimism, that even reaching back to a time where there were no antiviral medications and no well-matched vaccines to fight a pandemic, the things communities did in terms of traditional public health tools - isolation, quarantine, social-distancing...
Though Markel's study has just been published, it has already been rolled into policy. The Department of Health and Human Services and CDC finished their analysis of the study's data last December before incorporating it into the Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation, a collection of guidelines for use by individuals and communities issued by the agencies in February. The guide offers help in coordinating and implementing a strategy to protect communities from the front end of an epidemic and to keep them afloat until the appropriate pandemic-strain vaccine can be delivered to them - which officials estimate...