There was an article linked on Drudge just yesterday that stated that flu vaccinations actually SPREAD disease.
I’ve not had a flu vaccination since I was a little boy, yet my wife got one this year and she was out of work for over a week. Unreal
Are you talking about the article where researchers were deliberately giving volunteers the flu? Those volunteers were quarantined for 9 days.
I've not seen any articles indicating flu vaccines spread disease.
Are you talking about the article where researchers were deliberately giving volunteers the flu? Those volunteers were quarantined for 9 days.
I've not seen any articles indicating flu vaccines spread disease.
The article didn’t say that. It said over-the-counter flu-symptom medicines can help to spread the flu because people feel better and go back to work but are still able to infect others.
A crock of crap! The vaccines are not live virus or in most cases even a whole virus. The vaccines make use of the antigenic proteins to stimulate body defenses against the particular strain or strains of the virus. This is nothing but reverting to medieval ideas of Jews poisoning the wells and bad humors causing and spreading disease.
My wife’s sister-in-law came down with the flu just after Christmas, went home from the hospital and first got better, then developed pneumonia as a result of the flu weakening her immune system. Went back in the hospital, her brain swelled because of the pneumonia and she was put into a coma along with kidney dialyis to keep her from dying. Did no good, too far along and she died after 3 weeks from diagnosis to death from blood clots as a byproduct of the pneumonia infection. She was in excellent health with no other problems at 57 years of age. The key thing missing...she didn’t get a flu shot this year.
I’ve been getting the shots since 1970 in the military and every year thereafter. Never had even a minor flu problem.
Various strains of the flu are worse than others and different strains affect different age groups. The largest portion of military deaths from flu in the epidemic of 1918-19 were young people. The military in this country has never since experienced a flu epidemic like that since yearly shots were initiated and the military is still one of the large groups along with school children that are potential breeding grounds for the flu.
Get your shots regularly and the chances of epidemics or you yourself coming down with a serious case fall almost to zero. There are still some who come down with the flu or a flu-like infection but the numbers are very low overall.
That stupid lie about vaccinations spreading the flu are as old and as much BS as flourides in water.
i don’t like vaccines...don’t trust them. But my wife was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in September so I got one because I didn’t want to take the chance of getting her sick. Found out from my Dr. later that getting the flu vaccine doesn’t do anything to help me stop spreading flu germs to my wife.