[delacoert]

Concerns Over Vaccine Safety continued...

They found that participants seemed reluctant to get a new vaccine during a pandemic "because of low perception of risk of infection early in a pandemic coupled with the many uncertainties that surround new vaccines and the emerging infectious disease." They note that "very few" said that they "would definitely get vaccinated."

Also, “participants were very concerned that in a pandemic, a vaccine would be brought to market without sufficient testing for safety,” the researchers write. Many felt that hand-washing and social distancing could help prevent disease.

But Henrich and Holmes say such steps, though worthwhile, aren’t enough, and that the message that vaccination is important needs to be broadly stressed.

In an accompanying BMJ editorial to the Chor study, Rachel Jordan, PhD, MPH, from the University of Birmingham, and Andrew Hayward, PhD, of the UCL Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, say the first batch of H1N1 vaccine should be ready by October. They say it’s important for health workers to get the vaccine for personal and patient protection and also to reduce absenteeism.

The Hong Kong researchers say more study is needed to determine the root cause of the low intention to get vaccinated.

[nomad]

I read that one of the potential complications is Guillain-barr syndrome, or Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneurapathy, an autoimmune disorder with crippling or even fatal consequences.I`ll not be a Guinea pig,let the sheeple take it first and then lets wait and see what happens.

[nomad]

The original variant wasn`t bad,for all the hype,most who got it were no more sick than with your average flu.And weren't`t anti-virals effective?

[DvdMom]

swineflu Ping

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I don’t blame them. I will not be getting an H1N1 shot.

[SC DOC]

We have always offered free flu shots to our employees, and to our ptients, at cost. This year we are not going to give an untested vaccine to either group.

[Brugmansian]

Guess we are no longer in the era of when, for instance, a doctor did the first heart cath on himself.

[BulletBobCo]

My wife is a pharmacist and works the night shift at a hospital. About three days ago, she told me that she had to deliver tamiflu to a patient that was confirmed to have H1N1. I asked her if she had a mask on. She said she didn’t but that the patient did. She said that the patient looked fine. I asked her if she was going to take the vaccine when it becomes available and she said no way, that she didn’t trust it. She was a pharmacist in the military when we met and has been a pharmacist for 23 years.

[maine-iac7]

bttt

interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-koKaeG5o

little hair raising

follow the money? and the control factor?