Immunology

Hygiene Hypothesis And Why Amish Kids Have Less Asthma

If you do not have your 11-year-old child in a car seat while driving and in a bicycle helmet while playing, you are putting them at severe risk.  We have to protect them.  Or not. While we expose kids to all kinds of harmful cultural stuff at earlier and ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 8 2024 - 9:21am

SARS-Like Virus Can Jump Directly From Bats To Humans- And There Is No Treatment

Researchers have discovered a new SARS-like virus that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans without mutation.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2024 - 3:21pm

5 Important Things To Know About Bird Flu

The UK has just recorded its second outbreak of bird flu in less than three months. At the end of November, the relatively new subtype H5N8 – which was first spotted in late 2009 in China and which has since made its way westwards as far as the Netherland ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 6 2024 - 8:50am

At 3 Cases In 6 Months, Monkeypox In The US Is Effectively Contained

Monkeypox (Mpox) is an infection transmitted by skin-to-skin contact and causes fever and painful skin blisters. It is in the Orthopoxvirus genus of viruses, which includes smallpox, so those vaccinated against it have cross-protection, smallpox vaccines a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2024 - 1:12pm

A Bat Origin For SARS?

SARS – severe acute respiratory syndrome – alarmed the world five years ago as the first global pandemic of the 21st century. The coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that sickened more than 8,000 people – and killed nearly 800 of them – likely originated in bats, thou ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2025 - 1:20pm

Trump Administration Authorizes $100 Million For New Vaccine Research

In its second year, Avian Influenza has wrecked the U.S. poultry industry and caused egg prices to rise sharply. A month into a new presidential term, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has been given $1 billion to get the problem under control. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 26 2025 - 1:48pm

What Californians Of 2015 Share With 1991 Religious Fundamentalists

In this century, vaccine denial is primarily located in progressive hotbeds of states like California, rooted in distrust of science. It's an embarrassment for Democrats, who pride themselves on being more scientific than Republicans, to see that righ ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 2 2025 - 7:25pm

6-Foot Rule Does Little To Prevent COVID-19 Exposure

There were a lot of rules introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic that originated during late 2019 in Wuhan, China. Some were pretty Draconian. China welded the homes of people shut and destroyed 16,000 coronavirus samples at the world's largest coron ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 6 2025 - 10:55am

Why COVID-19 Spreads Faster In Cities

Wealthy elites from Manhattan have been retreating to their vacation homes while year-round residents wish they would stay away. Urban residents are being treated look poor refugees during pandemics, famine, and war. They will bring the problem with them, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 6 2025 - 11:01am

RFK Jr Is Wrong About MRNA Vaccines- They Make COVID-19 Less Deadly

US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term effects. Kennedy has claimed that mRNA vaccines “encourage new ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 8 2025 - 11:42am