Of Course Children Should Get the H1N1 Vaccine

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You must be prophet to know the future about H1N1 trends when All the medical experts in the world have no inclination. The only source of this forecast on 'devastting" future trends are the vccine manufacturers who stand to profit from their forecast. Just being cared for in a hospital today there are several times more statistics of deaths accrued than those fabricated by vaccine manufacturers. MRSA is only one of the many killers infesting our hospitals with little or no mention by our medical authorities.

L. Beauley of NH 6:00PM January 28, 2010

I don't live in a third world country, I don't ignore health issues and I am healthy. So what's the big deal even if I do get the virus? I know plenty of people who have gotten it at this point and they've all been fine after a few days. Why must we over-medicate and pre-medicate for everything these days? Let the body fight off some things and go to the doctor if and when necessary. I usually follow the research and statistics, but I just don't believe them when it comes to the flu shots, and especially this H1N1. It's too much of a crap-shoot, not statistically proven that they're right and too many unanswered questions. I'll trust my body and my judgment before I put this stuff into myself or my kids. I don't believe all the conspiracy theories about the evils of the flu shots, but I don't believe what the medical profession says either. Maybe if I had no access to healthcare or if I was traveling to a third world country I'd get the shot.

Brian C of PA 4:46PM November 19, 2009

My god what the heck are these so-called scientists thinking?! Putting animal parts, blood, mercury, formeldehyde, aluminum, MSG and worst of all TISSUE OF ABORTED BABIES into our childrens "lifesaving vaccinations"!! Think about it, mercury can be deadly, and if you mess around with putting animal and human parts into your childrens bodies, you're putting them at risk for some extremly bad stuff! People don't stop to think about things, they trust blindly, and the cost of that is way too high. Do research, get the list of ingrediants before you get anything injected into your children. Make sure you are getting accurate information though, because there is a ton of trumped up stuff out there. Parents, isn't our number one job to keep our children safe?

Bex of MI 10:51AM November 11, 2009

I'm 21 and I remember when the government was pushing for women to get the Gardasil shot. If you google the shot, you'll actually find medical research that shows that it's actually BAD for girls and women to get but it was hailed as a life saver of HPV. I also found this article to be very interesting (http://medicalconsumers.org/2005/03/01/flu-vaccines-do-not-work-for-kids-or-the-elderly/) and as someone who has never had the flu nor the vaccine, even around flu infected people, it amazes me that people are still telling people to get shots. Isn't that why we have a natural immune system? After getting them year after year, of course your not going to be able to fight off diseases. My mom got her first one this year, and she has never been so sick in her life. Take extra Vit D (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--NqqB2nhBE) and C, wash your hands after being out in public and don't touch your face. Hand sanitizer is a must, eat immune boosting foods. In about 10 years from now we'll see the effects of what the shot can do, so I'm in no hurry to rush out and get it. All cases have even been declared as MILD and on the CDC website. I'm not getting it, and am 14 weeks pregnant with my first and am perfectly healthy.

Jenna of NY 10:24PM November 05, 2009

Injecting any foreign substance into the body is not helpful. I never vaccinated my children from any flu, nor have I gotten the flu shot. We have never gotten the flu and have been exposed to people with the flu. Everybody is so scared about getting the flu, they'll pump whatever vaccine is being marketed. Like cattle, lined up thinking the government will save them.
Oh, why don't we check the water for the overdose of flouride. American's are poisoned to begin with and poisoned to death. Where the hell do you think all this cancer is coming from. Everybody has cancer. Fake processed foods, meat eaters by the hordes eating pumped up hormones injected in, cows, chicken, pork etc...An you stupids are worried about the flu.....Idiots.

BokahRaton of KY 1:36PM November 05, 2009

BTW, I just vaccinated my 2 yo son for H1N1 but if you look at America's past, you will see many instances of "medical" tests and procedures that have harmed our citizens. We have a right to be skeptical when the medical community has exploited the American public in the past. Have you heard of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment which continued until 1972, where poor, illiterate men were used as human lab rats? Or the pulling of IUDs in the 1970s after they were associated with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease? Or the near fatal overdose of Heparin for Dennis Quaid's newborn twins? We're humans, after all and humans make mistakes. We have a right to ask questions and not just line up like a bunch of bleating sheep when a town crier comes along stories of impending doom.

leesuh of CT 2:05PM November 04, 2009

And then there are those of us who hope the idiots don't get the vaccine. Call it natural selection if you will.
My God, Americans are stupid. They love the medications - painkillers by the truckload, unproven vitamins, new-age berry juices - but an actual designer vaccine is a threat?

Colin of MN 9:30AM November 04, 2009

Thanks for this important piece. Here's the irony. Finally American medicine develops a designer vaccine that is specific for exactly the virus that is predominate this flu season. In addition, this designer vaccine is produced using proven production techniques and delivery system (injection) used for years. Side effects are very mild and have been documented.
Yet the public and our society is focused on 30 second soundbites and celebrity status as somehow equal to scientific and medical expertise.
As a practicing primary care doctor, I continue to worry about how the public gets its important health care information and its ability to separate hype from the truth.
Get educated. Get informed. If you refuse, then that is ok if it is informed refusal. If you refuse because of ignorance, then I hope you or your loved one never gets ill and dies, because a life long feeling of regret when something could have been done, but wasn't isn't a burden I wish on anyone.
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Davis Liu, MD of CA 4:53PM October 27, 2009

Needs to do a little reading before he does a little reporting. That bit from his article is just littered with inaccuracies. Maybe he's overlooking the fact that a long list of autoimmune disorders and neurological disorders are linked to some of the crap they put in the vaccines. Those are life-long debilitating side-effects, not just a passing fever as a result of getting the shot. And lets not forgot about the fiasco with the mass vaccinations in 1976 where more people were actually killed or injured by the vaccine than the virus itself. It's also well known that this strain of h1n1 going around is mild when compared to just the seasonal flu of the previous 2 years. The list of reasons not to be suckered into getting this (and other vaccines) just goes on and on. And the fact that Obama isn't having his girls drugged up should be proof enough that this is bogus.
This Specter guy makes ZERO sense in his argument, what little argument he's got. He calls out "the anti-science" crowd as pushing some sort of anti-vaccine agenda. Quite the opposite if you ask me. The more scientific minded individuals will research this and discover for themselves that most vaccines are generally useless and the associated health risks too high.

Bob of PA 11:19PM October 26, 2009

The contents might surprise you...
aluminum hydroxide* aluminum phosphat* ammonium sulfate amphotericin B
animal tissues: pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, dog
kidney, monkey kidney.
chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, calf(bovine)
serum* betapropiolactone
fetal bovine serum formaldehyde formalin gelatin
glycerol squalene
human deploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal
tissue)
hydrolized gelatin mercury thimerosol (thimerosal,
Merthiolate(r))
monosodium glutamate (MSG) neomycin neomycin sulfate
phenol red indicator
phenoxyethanol (antifreeze) potassium diphosphate
potassium monophosphate
polymyxin B polysorbate 20 polysorbate 80
porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein residual
MRC5 proteins sorbital
tri(n)butylphosphate
VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells, and
washed sheep red blood