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Originally Posted by jplinville
I have taken the flu shot every year for the last 6 years, and have yet to get sick from it.
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Originally Posted by jplinville
I had the flu shot in December, so if anything, I'll get a few days of aches and pains.
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So wich one, make up your mind!
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Originally Posted by jplinville
Each formulation is changed each year to include different strains fo the flu. It forces your body to build the antibodies to fight it.
She has not smoked in years, but much of the damage came from living in the LA area with the polution.
She is a survivor of breast cancer, and due to the treatments she underwent, she can't take the flu vaccine for 2 more years.
I took her to the hospital this morning where she was admitted for pneumonia, another vaccine that she can't take for 2 years.
Thanks for coming across as an a$$
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I am aware how vaccination works.
I have never taken the flu shot (and never will) and yet to get the flu.
There are millions of people living in LA area and they don't have weak lungs, obviously smoking is/was a great contributor.
I have no sympathy for people who knowingly cause themselves health problems.
And you get off your pedestal, your fiancée is not the only one around here who have survived cancer.
You can put whatever you want into your body but don't tell people that they should do it too because your fiancée has weak health.
"The truth is, while the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and most mainstream docs are pushing the flu vaccine, the latest science suggests it just doesn't work very well. So, should you or shouldn't you? Here, the answers to your flu-shot questions.
How effective is the shot?
The flu shot is only as good as the educated guesses of a group of vaccine researchers across the globe. Every February, they try to predict which flu viruses will work their evil during the next fall and winter. Their three top choices are put into the vaccine. The CDC claims that vaccine will be 70 to 90 percent effective against just those strains of flu.
"We hope that these smart scientists who get together with the vaccine producers make the right call," says immunologist Dr. Randy Horwitz, medical director of the University of Arizona's School for Integrative Medicine. But sometimes they don't, partly because the virus mutates from year to year. In 2003-2004, the CDC admitted that it completely missed the virulent Fujian flu strain that hit hard that winter."
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/10/31/flu.hm.flu.shot/
"Some doctors and scientists believe that flu shot risks are only slightly increased by the presence of thimerosal in the vaccine, however a group of doctors and scientists recently established a link between thimerosal presence in vaccines and autism. Because of this link, New York recently passed a law banning the use of thimerosal in vaccines or flu shots to be given to young children and pregnant women.
Many health care professionals believe that the dangers of flu shots are not limited to pregnant women and young children and that thimerosal use as a preservative should be banned by the Food and Drug Administration. Thimerosal is mercury based and is a known neurotoxin, meaning it is a poison that damages or destroys nerve tissue. So, concerns about flu shot risks are similar to concerns about unsafe levels of mercury in the fish we eat and in our environment.
Guillain-Barre syndrome may be one of the dangers of flu shots. This is a disease in which the body damages it's own nerve cells resulting in muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes permanent nerve damage. The syndrome was first associated with the swine flu shots of 1976, but a subsequent study concluded that Guillain-Barre syndrome was one of the possible flu shot risks."
http://ezinearticles.com/?Dangers-of-Flu-Shots&id=274215
"The CDC does not explain the flu shot risks associated with past reactions or if typical flu shot side effects which include fever, body aches and soreness, redness or swelling at the point of injection, should be of concern."
Wow, great prevention, makes you as sick as the real illness might.
So go ahead, poison yourself if you like but telling others to do the same is irresponsible.
Obviously you have a great love for vaccinations.
I like to give my body the first fighting chance and not put chemicals, with dubious value and effectiveness, into it unnecessarily.
Not having sympathy for a self caused illness doesn't make me an a$$, but if you think it does then you can kiss that a$$.