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Would You Take the Swine Flu Shot?

Posted August 21, 2009 7:39 AM

With all the hype about a swine flu epidemic in the media, the drug regulatory body for the EU is accelerating the approval process for a vaccine. The U.S. government is taking a more cautious approach, calling for several thousand volunteers to be injected with the vaccine in tests beginning in August to assess its safety. Many feel that until the vaccine is licensed and the public has been reassured of its safety, they would not get vaccinated. What do you think? Would you get vaccinated?

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Re: Would You Take the Swine Flu Shot?

08/21/2009 10:54 AM

No... Unless the nurse was really pretty and offered me a lolly

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08/21/2009 12:33 PM

I hope Mrs Del the cat isn't peeking over your furry shoulder.

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Re: Would You Take the Swine Flu Shot?

08/21/2009 4:21 PM

Not without them cornering me and holding me down; even then I'd struggle.

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08/21/2009 5:03 PM

hell no.. not liek it is oing to kill you unless you ralready sick or ill then still no cuz i tmight kill me

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08/21/2009 6:58 PM

In 1970, they administered 40 million doses that resulted in 25 deaths from allergic reactions and side effects. The Swine Flu has already killed over 250 so I think the odds are in your favor if you get the injection.

That said, I am not in a high risk demographic, so no. I don't plan to get it. If I was in that demographic (very young, very old, very sick), I think that I would.

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Re: Would You Take the Swine Flu Shot?

08/21/2009 7:26 PM

AFTER the certification, I'd like to get it. As a father, husband and responsible for the house, I cannot afford the risk of being put out of service. At least not at this point...

But I would love to have the vaccine available as soon as possible. A lot of people here in the south region of Brazil is being contaminated. It started due to the proximity with Argentine, that has gone under a pandemony. The problem is that people do not care, they think those things happen only to other people, and government is unable (or affraid...) of making hard containment restrictions like the ones seen in Mexico, Argentine, or, in a even bigger scale, China with the chicken flu (even more dangerous, the police arrested people that was sick and refused to retreat to their houses-with dead sentence...).

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08/22/2009 1:15 AM

"EU is accelerating the approval process for a vaccine. The U.S. government is taking a more cautious approach."

In contrast to European, the cautious approach of the US Government immediately brings to our mind the Thalidomide tragedy of late 50s and early 60s.

The drug was found to act as an effective tranquiliser and painkiller and was proclaimed as a "wonder drug" for insomnia, coughs, colds and headaches. It was also found to be an effective controlling vomiting which had an inhibitory effect on morning sickness, and so thousands of pregnant women took the drug to relieve their symptoms, resulting in more than 10,000 children born with most horrible defects.

The impact in the United States was minimized when the pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey refused Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for an application from Richardson Merrell to market thalidomide, saying more study was needed. Richardson Merrell gave the tablets to doctors on the understanding that the drug was still under investigation.

FDA inspector Frances Oldham Kelsey received an award from President John F. Kennedy for blocking sale of Thalidomide in the United States

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Re: Would You Take the Swine Flu Shot?

08/22/2009 5:45 AM

Arguments about vaccination from authorities in Europe:
"the non vaccinated individuals are dangerous, they risk to contaminate the others"

to which someone replies laughingly:
"if the others are vaccinated, what a monumental demonstration of failure for the vaccin"

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08/22/2009 1:02 PM

NO

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08/24/2009 5:32 AM

I say very BIG "NO". There are more deaths due to hunger than Swine Flu in the world of more than 6 billion population. So if US or EU feed food or vaccine to substitute food, I shall support.

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08/24/2009 6:01 PM

I don't have a problem with vaccines per se, and would get one in a flash IF I could use my own adjuvant.

But Glaxo is marketing their vaccine in Canada, amid much hype about a new "mystery" adjuvant that's going to radically reduce the amount of vaccine needed. I'm not inclined to use the vaccine unless I know what that adjuvant is. And, afaict, they're not saying. Mystery indeed.

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Re: Would You Take the Swine Flu Shot?

09/01/2009 11:51 AM

No!

Flu shots have not been proven to target any specific flu yet.

In my opionion this one is pure speculation

Unga! Bunga!

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Re: Would You Take the Swine Flu Shot?

11/13/2009 9:20 AM

"Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occured before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics." Dr. Archie Kalokerinos, M.D. PhD

Historical trends indicate vaccines have had little positive effect: Historical trends show that deaths caused by childhood illnesses had already declined as much as 98% before vaccine programs were ever initiated. Evidence indicates that an improved standard of living, better nutrition, and increased sanitation, caused this drop in disease, not vaccines.

"In fact there have been some massive disasters around the world following vaccination programs, and that measles for example was dying out in Europe and then they started the vaccination program and it rose again. The thing that had cured measles was in fact the better nutrition...the vaccination wasn't solving these problems at all, just as many people were getting sick post vaccinations as they were before." Pauline Rose I.N.P

Vaccine injuries are grossly underreported. There are many vaccine related deaths ever year.

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