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Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by kalamatas
Boosters aren't different than the original vaccine. It's not modified for mutations. That makes no sense. Boosters are to boost immunity not cover mutations. Wow.
Actually they are. Because there's no logical reason to otherwise need a boosting to your immune system. Your body does not forget a virus. But a virus mutates and then it needs to find a new way.
What you're talking about is exposing yourself to pathogens via the proper immune stimulating route. This confers true immunity because, as I already noted previously, you are exposed to the pathogen via mucous membranes and your gastrointestinal tract. This is the proper way to signal the body to mount a PROPER immune response and actually learn to fight the pathogen. It is a completely different mechanism than injecting a dead substance intramuscularly or if the nurse sucks at shot into your bloodstream.
Actually it's not different. See you're trying to say it is, but the reality is that the body can mount a more effective assault in the blood than in the mucous. Furthermore, mucous is not for fighting a disease. It is for preventing it. In hopes that it gets caught in that rather than the lungs and dies.
The function of what is happening remains the same. The substance being dead is basically irrelevant. It's the specific protein assemblies that the body has to scan. And it can do that to something dead or alive. Furthermore, the "mounting the offensive" is what is actually your cold. That's what a cold is. The war, not the infection.
Why do you need a tetanus booster? Not because of mutation but because effectiveness wears off. Ingest tetanus toxoid and you become immune.
The effectiveness wears off because the entity mutates. Ingest it, and you will get sick again if it is a mutation. Because the body has to find a new way to combat the changed structure.
It is absolutely NOT the same function. Your completely bypassing the first and critical lines of defense.
Because the first means of defense are not immunity. It's killing it before it enters you.
You know what? I can't even argue with you because the information you are throwing out is completely and utterly bogus. I have to assume you're making this stuff up, or at the very least have confused your information
We're talking about booster shots not annual flu vaccines (of which are updated to "cover" new viruses). Booster shots (not flu shots) are the same shot as the previous.
Have you studied the immune system? Do you know what epithelial cells are? Please study the immune system and it's processes then come back and tell me that injection and ingestion are the same. Until you do that we are both wasting our time.
Vaccines wear off, and the idea for them not lasting has ZERO to do with mutations its has to do with the idea of immunologic memory, which is a debatable premise of it's own. This is common knowledge. Look it up.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by kalamatas
If it were common knowledge I wouldn't need to research it lol. It's common knowledge for the ignorant. Vaccines wear off because diseases mutate.edit on 9-1-2013 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)
Boosters:
n.
An additional dose of an immunizing agent, such as a vaccine or toxoid, given at a time after the initial dose to sustain the immune response elicited by the previous dose of the same agent. Also called booster dose.
Acquired immunity develops through exposure to specific foreign microorganisms, toxins, and/or foreign tissues, which is "remembered" by the body's immune system. When that antigen enters the body again, the immune system "remembers" exactly how to respond to it, such as with chickenpox.
Once a person is exposed to chickenpox, or the chickenpox vaccine, the immune system will produce specific antibodies against chickenpox. When that same person is exposed to chickenpox again, the immune system will trigger the release of the particular chickenpox antibodies to fight the disease. The degree and duration of immunity depend on the type and amount of antigen and how it enters the body.
The immune system of infants is immature and not capable of effectively dealing with natural viruses or even with artificially attenuated vaccine viruses. Naturally immune mothers - i.e., those who had viral diseases during their own childhood - protect their babies from those diseases by passive transfer of their immunity via the placenta during pregnancy and via breast milk after birth. Immunologists believe that passive immunity transfer depends on virus-neutralizing antibodies in the serum and in breast milk of immune mothers. Interestingly, females of the mammalian species are capable of much higher levels of antibody production than males. This might have been an evolutionary adaptation for the need to protect their young via passive antibody transfer throughout childbearing age.
A child's exposure to the virus while being breastfed by a naturally immune mother would lead to an asymptomatic infection that results in life-long immunity to that virus. If exposed to the virus for the first time only after weaning, a child would experience the disease and acquire life-long immunity too.
Many viral diseases are sometimes referred to as childhood diseases, because prior to the routine childhood vaccination, these diseases occurred mainly in children. Infants were protected from these diseases by maternal immunity, whereas adults were protected by their own life-long immunity, which they had acquired in the childhood. The use of vaccines changed this pattern.
Unlike natural exposure to viruses that happens via mucosal surfaces, most of the live attenuated or inactivated viral vaccines are delivered by injection. This route of exposure induces serum antibodies but not the mucosal antibodies. Since only the mucosal exposure contributes to the production of antibodies in the mammary gland, vaccinated mothers lack the ability to transfer vaccine-induced antibodies to their infants by breastfeeding. Furthermore, vaccinated mothers have lower levels of virus-specific antibodies in the serum compared to naturally immune mothers. Therefore vaccinated mothers transfer fewer, if any, protective antibodies to the fetus via the placenta than naturally immune mothers. For these reasons and increased risk for measles had been observed in infants born to vaccinated compared to naturally immune mothers in the early 1990s, when measles was still endemic in the US (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...)
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by ~widowmaker~
Then home school them. I'm certainly not subjecting my children to the public educational system. They will be home schooled, volunteer, and enter various local clubs to make up for social interaction.
Originally posted by guitarplayer
Small poxs I beleive had my scar on my left upper arm. not to bad of a scar seen some that looked really bad.
Originally posted by abeverage
Originally posted by guitarplayer
You sound like me I too went through all the grammer school shots and cubes I suppose we are lucky to of not gotten any of the polio shots that were contaminated with cancer.
Originally posted by Aleister
I haven't had a vaccine since I was in grammar school, when they marched us into the gym and either stuck us with something or gave us a sugar cube. Thanks for the great find, and I expect people here to be picking the document apart and coming up with new angles on it for quite awhile. Where's the news media when you need them?
Which one left a scar?edit on 8-1-2013 by guitarplayer because: (no reason given)