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The research describes a phenomenon in which vaccination against one strain of flu actually seems to raise the risk of severe infection following exposure to a related but different strain, an effect called vaccine-associ ated enhanced respiratory disease. …
… the finding is reminiscent of something that was observed in people in Canada during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
Dr. Danuta Skowronski, a flu expert at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver, spotted a surprising and unsettling trend when she looked at data on people in British Columbia who contracted H1N1 in the spring and summer of 2009. People who had received a seasonal flu shot the previous autumn were more likely to contract the new pandemic strain.
GuidedKill
I haven't taken any vaccine since I was a child and had no choice. With that said I have been over 20 years without vaccines and have not been sick more than a three times in that 20 years.....Vaccines are not needed period.
ZeroReady
GuidedKill
I haven't taken any vaccine since I was a child and had no choice. With that said I have been over 20 years without vaccines and have not been sick more than a three times in that 20 years.....Vaccines are not needed period.
What about the rest of the population who don't have your stellar immune system?
..."genetically weak links " ...
Vaccines ...are to help protect those members of society who are very young, very old, or otherwise less than perfectly healthy.
It is believed that cytokine storms were responsible for many of the deaths during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed a disproportionate number of young adults.[1] In this case, a healthy immune system may have been a liability rather than an asset. Preliminary research results from Hong Kong also indicated this as the probable reason for many deaths during the SARS epidemic in 2003.[8] Human deaths from the bird flu H5N1 usually involve cytokine storms as well.[9] Recent reports of high mortality among healthy young adults in the 2009 swine flu outbreak has led to speculation that cytokine storms could be responsible for these deaths, since the Swine Flu results from the same influenza strain as the Spanish Flu of 1918.[10]
A new Dutch study shows that flu vaccines prevent children from building their natural immunity, specifically to other flu viruses. By comparison, a natural infection induces cross-immunity. This means that regularly vaccinated kids are sitting ducks in a pandemic - because they haven't built up their immunity.