I dont know if I am paranoid but If H15 (Bird flu) Mutates How can I stay safe? I know they dont have a vaccination.
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I know this wasn't really your question, but don't get too panicked about this.  There are other, more immediate threats to your health that you should worry about more than if they bird flue mutates.  You're more likely, at least in the immediate future to be run over by a car, for instance, so look both ways before you cross the street!\n\nIf you feel the need to stockpile food, this might be helpful for you psychologically.  Know, however, that they are working on a vaccination that may come in time.
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You are half way there!\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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no, the flu shot is derived from eggs.  You don't know yet if your baby is allergic to it (I believe docs say wait for eggs until 1 year).  I don't vaccinate, if I go out in public, I wear my son in a sling so people don't touch him, we all know how complete strangers for some reason think it's a good idea to get their hands all over babies.
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Yes I have used natural anti-virals/bacterials for years and they work great. I don't fear the bird flu, westnile, etc. You have to take charge of your health because if you are counting on the government to help you, you are gonna die.
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For the first part, scientists' vaccines are based on strains that we've already seen.  Each yearly flu shot is based on last year's common bug, with a couple of changes to compensate for the mutations they suspect the virus has undergone.  Since these are just guesses, the scientists may or may not have a vaccine that functions well or at all.\n\nIf we can't find a specific vaccine, the best way for communities to prepare is by doing all those things your mother said: wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze, and make sure you're not hanging around with people that are sick.  Many hospitals already have protocols in place for patients that would need isolation rooms, there is stockpiling of various viral medications that will at least hinder the spread of the disease if not stop it altogether, and general public awareness has been heightened.
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No, I do not believe they are safe, I believe that we are brainwashed to believe they are safe. Also, it is not true that your child cannot go to school without having them. All states allow some kind of exemption, either a religious, a medical, or a philosphical exemption. I live in CA, and we have all three. I will homeschool, but if I did decide to put them in school, I would use the philosophical exemption. All you do is obtain a form, you can find this through gval.com, and state why you feel it is not safe to immunize your child. If people would do some research, they would find out that when immunizations were first introduced, the diseases they were fighting had already been in a rapid decline prior to their introduction.  Here's a few quotes for you...\n\n "Actually, it's the vaccinated children who spread disease. Many of the disease outbreaks that we are warned about today, are caused by, and occur in, recently vaccinated children."\n "Recently vaccinated children do carry the disease germ and are able to spread it to other children. Many so-called epidemics are initiated and spread in this manner, even though the unvaccinated are blamed."\n "Many children (and adults) receive vaccines and shortly thereafter have a serious reaction, often requiring emergency hospitalization. Such reactions include seizures, autism, immunological damage, neurological damage, sudden infant death syndrome, and/or a number of other rare and elaborately named "new" diseases. Often, the doctor, nurse, or hospital personnel will try to convince you that the reaction is "normal" and nothing to worry about. Other times they will claim your child contracted a simple virus, or is screaming uncontrollably (nonstop for hours!) because she didn't like the needle prick. These are all lies. Doctors NEVER admit a correlation between vaccines and serious reactions."\n  These are just some of the facts about immunizations that most people don't know. I was fortunate enough to have a dr. that says he too believes that they are unsafe, which is rare! These quotes don't even touch on the autism link. Do your research. Don't let anyone bully you into doing something you are concerned about doing. My feeling is this. I compare giving my child a shot to allowing someone to to play Russian Roulette with him. He could receive 100 vaccines and not have a single reaction, but it only takes one that affects him the wrong way to kill him. Who out there would sit with their child in their lap, allow someone to point a gun at their child and shoot, hoping they wouldn't get the one bullet? Not too many, I would hope. Another thought; the only new cases of polio happen in those who have received the immunization. Just be informed. I don't fault anyone for giving their child shots if they have researched it, unbiased, and still feel it's the right thing to do. I do have a problem with people who just take dr.'s word for it that it's safe. How many times in your lifetime has a report come along that said they've reversed what they had been telling us all along? Something to keep in mind if you still decide to immunize. See if the dr. will at least break them up into smaller quantities. One of the theories out there is that because they're giving so many vaccines in a single dose, it overloads the system. Your child could have had a slight infection, causing his immune system to be working on that, received this megadose of live viruses, and it was too much, causing a reaction. Also, ask for thimerosol-free immunizations, and if they don't have any, go somewhere else.\n\n\nFor Donna. You wanted to know where I got my information. Here's a few more links if the first three weren't good enough, if you even bothered to look there. These links are dealing with the issue of mercury, or thimerosol being in immunizations. These are articles that our CDC knows about
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Currently the are 15 in Oklahoma City.  I do not get one because they always make me sick for a few days.  I don't want to get sick for a few days for the CHANCE of not getting the FLU.  There are several different versions of the Flu and the shot you get is only a guess on what strand of the flu will hit this year.  If they are wrong you got a flu shot for nothing.
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So far bird flu is not contagious from human to human.  So unless someone brings home a flock of chickens, I don't think you have much to worry about.
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If you're cat is already vaccinated, then what you did is right on the money.\n\nIf it hasn't been vaccinated, you might want to get it checked since it drew blood from you.
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I think that there was a common vaccine given to kids at their school for mumps,rubeola and chicken pox.After that time the powers that be decided it was basically eraticated at large and they changed it to be done elsewhere to the parents choosing. So, if you are going to be exposed now-you must show your own proof that you had your shots.
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Curing this flu is no easy matter, avian influenza is so deadly that it is right behind anthrax on the bio-defense list, as a possible terrorist weapon. There are two ways to try to dodge the flu. One is to kill all infected birds. The other is to develop a vaccine before the disease shifts. Because this strain requires four times the usual vaccine dosage it is impossible to produce the 600 million doses our population needs. Current supplies could provide vaccine for 15 million people; that’s only 5% of our population. Accumulated data paints such a frightening pathogenic picture that WHO issued an urgent warning that a flu pandemic could affect billions of people worldwide. Billions because, unlike our annual flu outbreaks, everyone is vulnerable, regardless of age or health. To make matters worse,in Germany, on February 26, 2006, the virus demonstrated its adaptability when a domestic cat  was found dead from  avian influenza. A few days later, an infected stone marten was discovered. This shows us that the virus is changing. Last week it was believed that 6 members of an Indonesian family had all died of avian flu, which could indicate that the virus can now spread through human to human contagion. If a pandemic does strike we will immediately lose 40% of the country's work force. President Bush got less than half of the $7.1 billion he asked for to fight this flu. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist warned Americans that state and federal authorities are "woefully underprepared" to enforce quarantine provisions and distribute medicine, food, and other vital supplies in response to an avian flu pandemic. There isn’t medical equipment or staff enough to handle this outbreak. There are pitifully few ventilators and not enough coffins or cemeteries to bury the dead.  Perhaps as many as 1.7 million Amjericans  will die as the flu cycles through our country.Bush has said he will deploy the U.S. military to enforce a quarantine on areas where infection is found. Well, that’s just ridiculous. Where will the manpower come from? \nThere really isn’t a good solution to the problem. There isn’t enough vaccine; people are going to die. Remember birds distribute the virus through their fluids and feces so watch where you step and stay clear of ducks, they are carriers of the virus but are unaffected by it.  So the best bet is to stock up on water, canned foods and Tamiflu, stay in your own home, limit visitors severely, watch over your old folks and the infants and keep them as washed up as possible, wash your own hands often and pray. But be careful what you pray for … this flu might never be a problem ... it could be some other strain of man-killer flu entirely.
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Currently to catch bird flu you need to inhale or ingest some bird poo. A microscopic particle of poo containing the virus is all it needs. The reason for the massive cull is to try and prevent more birds from becoming infected, becasue the more birds it is in, the greater the chance of a mammal such as ourselves or pigs of being infected. To mutate into a deadly pandemic, an H5N1 virus has to infect a cell at the same time as a mammalian flu virus has infected the cell. \n\nSo by destroying the birds in massive culling programs, governments are limiting the possibility of this happening.\n\nIt is safe to eat infected meat as long as it is cooked properly (over 70 degrees for 20min)
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Hopefully no vaccinations will be given.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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most health care people receive the flu shot, just warn them in advance, and wash your hands a lot, use hand sanitizer before you touch public things if you are coughing a lot
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A lot of people ARE worried about the threat of bird flu, because of the media coverage of it.\nIn fact it is more likely that there will NOT be a pandemic. As far as the chance of a bird flu pandemic goes, the most commonly agreed upon figure by experts is 10%. So if you interpreted the documentary you saw correctly, then the documentary is wrong. Of the known cases of humans who have been infected with avian flu, a little over half have died. Most of the infected people have been children, who are probably more susceptible to it. You can only be infected by bird flu through close contact with infected birds, or the excretions of infected birds. Proper cooking of meat and eggs destroys the virus.\n\nA vaccine is under development.\n\nIf you want to find out more information about bird flu, and how it is being dealt with on an international level, I suggest you look at the World Health Organisation's website:\n\nhttp://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/\n\nCheerio.
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No.  It's total fearmongering, just like the governments all over the world did with 9/11, and Anthrax in the mail etc...\n\nA virus cannot try to mutate.  It just does it.  Flu season for this year is almost over, and who knows what will happen in time for next flu season?
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I think they would have to. That pic is probably the CDC not taking any chances, but if someone showed up with it, they couldn't keep doctors and hospitals quiet. I hate to say it, but the US has enough on its plate now not having to deal with Bird Flu.