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Kennedy’s Last Act: Reaching Out to Cuba; Cuban Meningitus Vaccine

By Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive

Kennedy Sought Dialogue with Cuba

http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/kennedys-last-act-reaching-out-to-cuba/

The 50th anniversary of the violent death of U.S. president, John F. Kennedy has yielded a long kept secret: in the aftermath of the assassination in Dallas, Fidel Castro sent a back-channel message to Washington that he wanted to meet with the official commission investigating Kennedy’s murder, to dispel the swirling allegations that Cuba was responsible.*   The Commission, headed by Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Earl Warren, sent a young African-American staff lawyer, William Coleman, on a clandestine mission to rendezvous with the Cuban leader on a boat in the Caribbean. To continue reading, click here!

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Princeton University confronts meningitis epidemic that Cuban Vaccine can prevent

By Tom Whitney, a physician from Maine, who writes frequently on US/Cuban developments. http://peoplesworld.org/princeton-university-confronts-meningitis-epidemic-that-cuba-can-prevent/
Princeton University students have a problem, one not of their own making. Since March, seven of them have contracted bacterial meningitis due to the type B form of the meningococcal microorganism. Vaccines that work against microbes causing the vast majority of cases of bacterial meningitis are readily available in the United States, but not a vaccine capable of preventing type B meningococcal meningitis. As a result, Princeton students are at risk. Yet 55 million doses of a type B vaccine have been administered in 15 other countries, mostly in Latin America.

The vaccine’s name is VA-MENGOC-BC, and it comes from Cuba. Under the anti-Cuban U.S. economic blockade, Cuban exports to the United States are forbidden.

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