Posted by larryhoover on December 27, 2012, at 11:05:16
In reply to Re: Flu shots?, posted by Phillipa on December 26, 2012, at 9:53:26
> Seriously both I and husband got one 5 years ago and that winter we spend Christmas on the couch sick as dogs. Never ever a flu shot again. And a week ago my neighbor said she had gotten one two months ago and now is sick with both flu and bronchitis. She went to the doc who didn't even give antibiotics for the bronchitis said this year brochitis here is resistant to antibiotics. One neighbors husband has had bronchitis for over 16 weeks each week a shot of a different antibiotic, same with two others here. There are more but I has a mercury derivitive in it therma or something like this. Never ever a flu shot again. Phillipa
Hey, P. Been a while, eh?
The flu shot does not protect against all variants of the influenza virus. The virus is constantly mutating, but it takes about six months to make sufficient serum to innoculate large numbers of people. This year, the flu shot I got protects against three strains of influenza, and lab tests by the health unit of confirmed cases have all been from those three strains. Their educated guess held up, so far.
Getting the flu more than two weeks after you got the shot simply indicates that you were exposed to a strain that was not included in the innoculation. You'll never know the flu you didn't catch, only the ones you did.
I doubt there are very many vaccines still using thimerosal (mercury-based preservative), but even if they are, the amount of mercury in there is less than that from one bite of salmon. On a risk/reward basis, the vaccine wins, IMHO.
I honestly believe that the most momentous medical advance in history was vaccination. But internet quacks have so distorted the risk/reward analysis that now people are refusing to vaccinate against deadly diseases such as measles, whooping cough, tetanus, meningitis, and polio. Oh, and also the deadly influenza virus.
Lar
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