The Vaccination Station

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(Not mine, I found it on Twitterx).

When anti-vaxxers send me messages, they're not sending their best.

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Author: Ruth Clegg.

--When Ginger Smith started taking supplements three years ago, she thought she was enhancing her health.

As a brand influencer, various boxes of complimentary products would regularly land on her doorstep in Seattle. The 30-year-old would take the pills, powders and gels, and then extol their benefits online.

"I was on high doses of vitamin C, vitamin D, turmeric, a special de-bloat supplement and I would regularly drink water with electrolytes in," Ginger explains.

For a couple of years, she says she felt healthy and energised. Little did she know she was putting her kidneys under immense strain.

After experiencing intense lower back pain, she went to her doctor, who ran a couple of blood tests. Within days, Ginger was told she needed an ultrasound.

"I was a bit worried, but I did not expect to be told that I had a massive kidney stone. So big, they told me that they were going to have to operate to remove it."

The kidney stone measured between two and three centimetres and had been caused, Ginger was told, by the cocktail of daily supplements she was taking.

Taking supplements every day? You might be doing more harm than good While many of us take supplements regularly, there are some risks people may not be aware of.

Conspiracy theorists love the idea that 'elites' are somehow working against them, because this makes it easier to blame other people for everything they don't like about their lives.

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This has upset all the right people. 😎

Authors: Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone.

--WASHINGTON (AP) — A new kind of flu vaccine moved a step closer to the U.S. market Thursday as federal health advisers recommended approval of the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.

..The FDA's independent advisory committee evaluated Moderna's studies of the vaccine and voted unanimously that its benefits appear to outweigh any risks for both age groups. The FDA will consider that recommendation in making a final decision by early August.

FDA panel backs first-of-its-kind flu vaccine using mRNA technology The Food and Drug Administration is evaluating Moderna's new shot, dubbed mFlusiva, for older Americans ahead of the winter flu season.

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https://x.com/Hypothesis/status/2067571560500641920

Author: Judy George.

--Older adults at higher risk for dementia were less likely to have a dementia diagnosis if they received a herpes zoster (shingles) shot, a cohort study using target trial emulation showed.

Among 500,000 people in skilled-nursing facilities for post-acute or long-term care, those who received the recombinant zoster vaccine (Shingrix) had a 24% lower risk of being diagnosed with dementia over 4 years compared with those not vaccinated (risk ratio [RR] 0.76, 95% CI 0.69-0.84), reported Kaleen Hayes, PharmD, PhD, of the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island, and co-authors.

Receiving at least one zoster shot was tied to a cumulative 4-year dementia risk that was 5.81 (95% CI 3.9-7.5) percentage points lower -- 18.8% versus 24.6% with no vaccine -- Hayes and colleagues wrote in Annals of Internal Medicineopens in a new tab or window.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/dementia/121769

https://archive.md/TQvKN

Study Looks at Risk for Dementia After Shingles Vaccine in High-Risk Group Analysis assessed 500,000 skilled-nursing facility residents in the U.S.

Sources:

https://www.mspca.org/advocacy-issues/biolabs

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/06/13/8039174

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1087910880/biological-weapons-far-right-russia-ukraine

https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2022/09/debunking-russian-lies-about-biolabs-at-upcoming-un.html

https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-the-nunn-lugar-cooperative-threat-reduction-program-2

https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/aspr-russian-chem-bio-warfare-disinformation-resources.pdf