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Xcalibur254
reply to post by FriedBabelBroccoli
It's true that the influenza vaccine is largely a guessing game. Scientists pretty much have to predict a year beforehand what the major strains of the next year will be. That said, unless you've had a severe reaction to the flu vaccine there is no reason not to receive it. Despite the popular claim that the flu vaccine causes the flu, this simply isn't true. The height of flu season occurs months after most people have received the flu shot. So what reason is there not to get it if the only side effect you can most likely expect is a sore arm for a day or two?
Grimpachi
reply to post by FriedBabelBroccoli
Yeah I will complain hat you didn't address a single thing from the OP and if you didn't understand the gist of what I was saying about your articles then I will make it simple. They were misleading garbage not worth chasing.
Serriously the article "Bill Gates On 'Vaccines To Reduce Population'" is enough to see the quality of your research.
Run along little rabbit I am not going to chase everytime you hop in a different direction.
After these rumours were spread, attempts were made to analyse TT vaccines for the presence of hCG. The vaccines were sent to hospital laboratories and tested using pregnancy test kits which are developed for use on serum and urine specimens and are not appropriate for use on a vaccine such as TT, which contains a special preservative (merthiolate) and an adjuvant (aluminum salt). As a result of using these inappropriate tests, low levels of hCG-like activity were found in some samples of TT vaccine. The laboratories themselves recognised the significance of these results, which were below the reliable detection capabilities of the adjuvant or other substances in the the vaccine and the test kit. However, these results were misrepresented by ‘pro-life groups with the resulting disruption of immunisation programmes.
When the vaccines were tested in laboratories which used properly validated test systems, the results showed that the vaccines clearly did not contain hCG.
Xcalibur254
reply to post by FriedBabelBroccoli
Yes, there is some guess work involved. However if we look at this year's flu shot we see that it includes the H1N1 variant. So far this has been the most prevalent strain this year. This means the vaccine producers made an appropriate vaccine and a large number of people will have some form of protection against the flu. For most of the vast majority of these people the worst side effect they experienced was a sore arm. So if the flu vaccine can protect you from one of the worst strains of the flu (the same one involved in the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918) with minimal side effects why would you not opt to get it?
This year's flu season is just like any other, says Quebec's Director of Public Health Horacio Arruda — even if the majority of the 969 cases already reported are H1N1.
“We are not in a pandemic situation," Arruda said Tuesday afternoon.
Hospital overcrowding graph
INFOGRAPHIC: Overcrowding in Montreal hospitals
He said that since the 2009 outbreak of H1N1, people have had the chance to build up a resistance to the strain, meaning it's far less deadly than it was five years ago.
However, it is spreading quickly.
Forty cases of the H1N1 strain of influenza were reported in the Eastern Townships on Monday, and the number of cases of influenza province-wide was pegged at 969 on Tuesday afternoon.
Arruda said more than 90 per cent of reported cases of the flu are H1N1.
Xcalibur254
reply to post by FriedBabelBroccoli
As your post just stated the primary strain this year is H1N1. This is the same strain that killed 5% of the entire population of the world between 1918 and 1921. While our medical facilities have improved over the past ~100 years this is still a very dangerous strain of flu. Do you have any legitimate reason not to protect yourself against this strain?
The global mortality rate from the 1918/1919 pandemic is not known, but an estimated 10% to 20% of those who were infected died. With about a third of the world population infected, this case-fatality ratio means 3% to 6% of the entire global population died.[29] Influenza may have killed as many as 25 million people in its first 25 weeks. Older estimates say it killed 40–50 million people,[4] while current estimates say 50–100 million people worldwide were killed.
. . . .
The majority of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia, a secondary infection caused by influenza, but the virus also killed people directly, causing massive hemorrhages and edema in the lung.
. . .
Another oddity was that the outbreak was widespread in the summer and autumn (in the Northern Hemisphere); influenza is usually worse in winter.
In the event of a pandemic, vaccination against influenza (H5N1) could limit the impact of infection at a public health level.
However, no evidence exists that available vaccines would be protective against the pandemic strain of the virus. We comment on some of the limitations of currently available vaccines and propose novel strategies to improve vaccine formulations against influenza (H5N1).
its my choice and it only affects me.
879 people were exposed, most of these were vaccinated so only 12 secondary cases occurred, all in unvaccinated children. Nine of these children were deliberately unvaccinated, but three of them were too young to have received the vaccine.
thedeadtruth
... the information gap between the "no vacs ever" loonies and the big pharma marketers.
Well the vaccines do protect people that IS the point.
ENrgLee
reply to post by Grimpachi
Well the vaccines do protect people that IS the point.
Then why complain about people who don't want to be "Protected"?
ENrgLee
reply to post by Grimpachi
Well the vaccines do protect people that IS the point.
Then why complain about people who don't want to be "Protected"?
48 children too young to be vaccinated were quarantined at an average family cost of $775 per child.
a net public-sector cost of $10 376 per case.
Are you SICK?
How the hell did you come up with that.
Explain!!!!