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Originally Posted by Mr.nintendo
It's all bull**** media hype, I'd rather risk "H1N1" then the known and occuring side effects from the shot
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What are the known and occuring side effects and where are you getting your information - the media?
Or second hand information from other people,
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Originally Posted by Quinster
They told me about half a dozen deaths locally they knew about from the same batch of meds that were used.
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Or Youtube?
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Originally Posted by workn2hard2day
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(An explanation of the woman's symptoms
http://www.examiner.com/x-13791-Balt...ll-in-her-head)
My information comes from the scientist's research. This information is found in peer-reviewed scientific journals or summarized for the layman magazines such as New Scientist.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ef=online-news
Doing research from these sources will lead you to the following facts:
This strain of flu isn't always mild
It can be fatal - particularly in young people (43 deaths of children in the US in the first 2 weeks of October)
Even if you have a mild reaction to the flu virus, you could be the cause of a serious ilness in your children, other family member, co-worker or anyone else you come in contact with
Although the virus can be breathed in as an aerosol droplet, in can survive upto 48 hours on non-porous surfaces and then transfered to your eyes, nose or mouth.
The vaccine is safe (the canadian vaccine, unlike the US is a dead virus). The misinformation about flu vaccine side effects come from the 1976 US swine flu vaccinations where out of 48 million vaccinations, roughly 500 people developed Guillain-Barré syndrome and 25 died. This rate is roughly 10 cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome for every 1 million vaccinations. Surprisingly, Guillain-Barré is found at a rate of 40-70 for every 1 million non-vaccinated flu sufferers and in the general population from other sources at 10 - 20 cases for every million people. Your chances if you were vaccinated in 1976 of getting Guillain-Barré were lower than if you caught the flu and the same as getting it from other sources.
Medical technology and vaccines have improved in 23 years - these side effects were from the
1976 vaccine.
One of these advancements is the addition of adjuvants made of fish oil, water and Vitamin E which are added to improve the body's immune response.
In Canada, the vaccine is free.
So the vaccine is: safe, cheap and will protect me or my family from from a possibly fatal disease. I guess I don't have tell you I am getting the vaccine.
I can provide references so you can base your decision on verifiable facts rather than rumors and information from almost 30 years ago.