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WASHINGTON – Flu season may not sound as scary for pregnant women this year as last — but they're still at high risk and need that shot, says a letter being mailed to thousands of health providers this week from some leading medical societies.
Any kind of flu is risky during pregnancy, for mother and baby. But last year's swine flu pandemic brought extra attention to the need for vaccination: Government data shows pregnant women account for only 1 percent of the population but represented 5 percent of swine flu deaths.
This year brings a return to the usual one-dose flu vaccine, wh
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Originally posted by VneZonyDostupa
So, you guys think "the powers that be" are dastardly and cunning enough to develop a vaccine to lower the world's population, but that they have failed to reduce that population for hundreds of years, and are continuing to fail?
I mean, you guys know the population goes UP every year, not down..right?
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
Once again, correlation does not imply causation. You did not even go through the effort to see if these differences in fertility rate are significantly different. Then you actually have to go through the effort to show that inoculations are the cause if fertility rates are significantly less now. You can't just give two stats and say that you have proven your case, especially when all you're looking at is a correlation with a ton of lurking variables.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
There could be a lot of reasons for it, but to come to the conclusion that it must be vaccines is foolish. It seems like vaccines are like HAARP, they get blamed for everything wrong, yet no proof has ever been offered to show that this is the case.