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When Immunity Fails: Whooping Cough Epidemic
KPBS and the Watchdog Institute investigated the whooping cough outbreak of 2010 that sickened thousands of people across the country and killed 23. This investigation contributed to the launch of new studies on the disease.
Tags: whooping cough; immunization; sickness; babies; vaccination; pertussis
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When Immunity Fails: Whooping Cough Epidemic
The reporters investigate how the whooping cough, an epidemic wiped out 30 years ago, has come back with a vengeance. Thousands were sickened by the disease in 2009 and 23 people died.
Tags: whooping cough; epidemic; disease; dead; outbreak
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"DWI Death Capital"
KHOU-TV set out to answer a frightening question: Why is Harris County, Texas "the DWI death capital of the country?" Employees of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission revealed "little-known amendments" that offer immunity to bars and bartenders "from civil liability" or "state administrative action" that could result from the state law that prevents over-serving alcohol.
Tags: Safe Harbor; TABC; Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission; dram shop; liquor distributors; drunk driving; bartender; public records; Texas Public Information Act; Harris County
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Conscientious Objector: School Vaccination Investigation
A large number of parents are refusing to get their kids vaccinated for some of the most deadly diseases. State health experts didn’t know of the serve problem until the numbers told them. The numbers revealed that a “71% spike in the number of conscientious objections in the past five years”. This has left the administrative and parents asking questions that don’t have answers.
Tags: immunization records; school district; health; public; vaccine; wellness; swine flu; H1N1; outbreak
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To Hug a Porcupine
Debbie and Jorge Garcia-Bengoches did not understand why the three little boys they'd adopted were acting so violent. Only years later and by accident did the couple discover that the boys had been horribly abused by a series of adults in early childhood, a fact that the state's foster care system knew but filed to disclose. The technical name for the boys' behavioral ailment is "Reactive Attachment Disorder" but they have been described as sociopaths. The parents successfully sued the state for $10 million but cannot get the money released due to budget cuts and the concept of sovereign immunity.
Tags: reactive attachment disorder; adoption; foster care; budget cuts; mental health; child abuse
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Missouri Chicken Pox Vaccine
This reporter working closely with the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules checks out why there is opposition to a law making Chicken Pox vaccines mandatory. According to this story, this issue is being debated in other states such as Illinois since some medical professionals are against the inoculations.
Tags: Chicken Pox vaccines; vaccination; inoculation; Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; JCAR; Illinois; medical professionals; immunization
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Blackout
Halsne found that Washington drivers with severe medical impairments, such as diabetes, were again and again given immunity following serious auto accidents. Washington law does not restrict licenses of drivers who have a long history of blackouts. KIRO-TV profiled a diabetic who sent a total of 9 innocent victims to the hospital in 3 car wrecks. KIRO found eight-thousand medically impaired drivers are allowed to keep their licenses year after year.
Tags: driving license; auto accident; medical impairment; diabetic drivers; blackout accidents; license restriction
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Vaccine Dangers
The news team found risks had been concealed from people asked to take the smallpox vaccines. They also expose the military's refusal to admit its vaccines are harming some soldiers; soldiers who are often dismissed and treated like "malingerers." They focused on the case of Rachael Lacy. The military denied her death was from the vaccines it administered but the news team found her death certificate showed otherwise. They also looked at the case of NBC War Correspondent David Bloom who died after his vaccinations. His case was not reported or investigated as a possible vaccine adverse event. They also looked at a Journal of the American Medical Association claiming there had been "no" deaths after smallpox vaccinations.
Tags: TAPE; military; smallpox; vaccine; medical records; death; death certificate; military casualty record; inoculation; blood clots; Anthrax; pulmonary nodules; Food and Drug Administration; Defense Department; bio-terror attack; Rachael Lacy; David Bloom; immune system
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The pollution lobby
North Carolina's laws have been changing lately. Bills allowing immunity for polluters, looser air-pollution standards and other similar legislation have all been introduced thanks to a growing network of pollution lobbyists. This investigation looks at the influential groups behind pushing through the legislation and the different powers that exist behind the causes.
Tags: environment; government; lobbying
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Blood Stain. A drug from Baxter is said to have posed a risk of Hepatitis. FDA and firm didn't impose a step to kill any virus in production of Globulin. Company is facing litigation.
This article talks about a possible association between Baxter's intravenous drug called Gammagard and hepatitis. Baxter has pulled the drug off the market. The article says that as many as 350 people worldwide might have contracted the virus from the drug (which is used as a treatment for immune deficiency).
Tags: Baxter; drug; Baxter International Inc.; Gammagard; hepatitis; virus; intravenous; immune deficiency; health; doctors; medicine; health care; patients; sickness; illness