Incompentency at the CDC
After one fiasco after the other the CDC has recently racked up yet another recent embarassment.
The2007/2008 influenza vaccine apparanly only is effective against 40% of the viruses causing flu this year.
This comes after a series of failures related to safety and supply of previous years flu vaccines.
The dishonest scaremongering by the CDC about 20-30,000 US flu deaths annually is rendered meaningless by the reality that most of these deaths are in the very frail
aged who are likely to die of some other cause very soon.
Dr Julie Gerberding came to the head of the CDC in 2002. Her and her agency's record is abyssmal with significant erosion of trust among both health professionals and the public.
We may never see trust restored in our nation's premiere public health agency but a good start would be the resignation of Dr.Gerberding.
Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton, Pa
http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com
The2007/2008 influenza vaccine apparanly only is effective against 40% of the viruses causing flu this year.
This comes after a series of failures related to safety and supply of previous years flu vaccines.
The dishonest scaremongering by the CDC about 20-30,000 US flu deaths annually is rendered meaningless by the reality that most of these deaths are in the very frail
aged who are likely to die of some other cause very soon.
Dr Julie Gerberding came to the head of the CDC in 2002. Her and her agency's record is abyssmal with significant erosion of trust among both health professionals and the public.
We may never see trust restored in our nation's premiere public health agency but a good start would be the resignation of Dr.Gerberding.
Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton, Pa
http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com
