What are the pros and cons of flu shots?!
Question: PROS: Huge profit for drug companies and doctors.
CONS: The last few years the shot wasn't even effective on prevelent strains of the flu.
Right to lifers may want to see what is used to make a vaccine.
Off lable use in kids and pregnant women are dangerous due to mercury.
They probably interefere with normally aquired immunity
Relationship to alzheimer's disease is controversial
Notice the scare tactics used to "sell" people on Vaccines.
A non immunosupressed individual would handle the flu just fine.
Answers: PROS: Huge profit for drug companies and doctors.
CONS: The last few years the shot wasn't even effective on prevelent strains of the flu.
Right to lifers may want to see what is used to make a vaccine.
Off lable use in kids and pregnant women are dangerous due to mercury.
They probably interefere with normally aquired immunity
Relationship to alzheimer's disease is controversial
Notice the scare tactics used to "sell" people on Vaccines.
A non immunosupressed individual would handle the flu just fine.
Only time in my life I've ever had the Flu was after being innoculated against it. Even my hair hurt. Gawdawful sick.
Attenuated vaccine is used to fool your body into thinking you have already had the flu. The good side is you may be able to avoid the flu. The worst thing that could happen is you could get a small dose of the flu.
The news media and health department have deemed the flu shot "the right thing to do". After all, missing work, or exposing your loved ones and co-workers to the influenza virus would be irresponsible, right? But, in the back of your mind, a little voice is asking, "Could those fanatics who say flu vaccines are dangerous be right?"
Here are a few things to consider so that you can develop an educated opinion:
1.) For most people, the flu is more of an inconvenience than a health risk.
2.) The flu vaccine contains 3 likely strains of influenza that may circulate this year, however, the health experts often guess these strains incorrectly (the CDC reports that not all of the current flu strains circulating are included in this year's vaccination).
3.) Influenza inoculations contain controversial, and potentially toxic substances along with the virus.
4.) A disturbing number of people have been experiencing a phenomenon called "flu-like symptoms" following their inoculations that can be just as severe as the flu itself.
5.) Most importantly, there is growing evidence that the whole flu vaccination program is pointless as established in this 2006 article in the esteemed British Medical Journal by respected vaccine researcher Dr. Tom Jefferson:
http://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/refer...
Flu is pretty easy to cure if you don't use drugs (drugs are bad against viruses), and resort to alternative health methods.
I personally had some very bad health experiences with vaccines, so I went and looked up the anti vaccine case online. It seemed pretty reasonable, so I tend to advise avoiding vaccines, especially in the case of something like flu which is easy to cure.
Basically, some of the viruses it puts into you can cause a whole myriad of health problems, and random garbage like mercury comes in the vaccine (which is extremely toxic, just another crappy reality of life), so there is an actual risk to it. It's still somewhat debated if the thing even works, and I have heard various unstubstanciated reports of people getting complications from the vaccine.
Seriously though, the flu is not like polio. If you get it, it's a bit of an inconvience, not a death sentance. It's debated if the vaccine even works, so I think the risks outweigh the gains.
Someone went up to me on campus yesterday trying to get people to sign a form to take 100 dolars to be a test subject for the flu vaccine. I basically asked the guy if he was aware that the vaccines could be toxic, he denied it, and then I said "Well then why are you offering people a lot of money to serve as test subjects and sign a liability waiver?" He didn't really have an answer.