Why can't we use last year's flu shots? Why do they change every year?
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Or could it be that the drug companies make more money this way?\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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That makes no sense - Most people get Mumps vaccinations when they are young.\n\nThe bird flu (and other types of flu) can mutate, so Flu Vaccines aren't as effective.
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The effectiveness of the flu shot varies substantially based on how accurate health authorities are at guessing what they prevalent flu strains will be.  They must determine months ahead of time what flu vaccine to make to accomodate the lead time of manufacturers, and come wintertime, those strains may not be the most prevalent.\n\nIn years where the strains were determined correctly, the vaccine is up to 90% effective according to the CDC.  However, even in a recent year where not all of the strains were identified properly, the vaccine was still 52% effective.  So your chances of getting the flu seem to be substantially reduced by getting the shot.
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Of course. Flu shots are purely for the financial benefit of the manufacturers.\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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Respiratory system infection by one of the influenza viruses.  These viruses can mutate quickly from year to year, so that a specific vaccine against all know types is not possible.  It is currently believed that all flu viruses fall into one of three broad classes, called A, B and C.
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From Wikipedia:\n\nOne possible explanation for "flu season" is that, because people are indoors more often during the winter, they are in close contact more often, and this promotes transmission from person to person. Another is that cold temperatures lead to drier air, which may dehydrate mucous, preventing the body from effectively expelling virus particles. The virus may also linger longer on exposed surfaces (doorknobs, countertops, etc.) in colder temperatures. Increased travel and visitation due to the Christmas season may also play a role.
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This is out of the CDC's actual reported influenza illnes and mortality data:\nThe current influenza vaccines are not effective for children under 2 and adults over 65.\nfor everyone else, they are less than 50 percent effective in a good year and NOT effective in years where there is a "strain mismatch".\nFor the past 20 years, the CDC's claim that 36,000 people die each year from"flu" or "flu-related pneumonia is a knowingly false claim. When called on the truth of their statements concerning vaccines, CDC officials have admitted (in their sworn testimony before Washington State and Delaware legislators) that they knowingly lie about various aspects of vaccines because their "job" is to promote vaccination at all costs, and count the people who die of pneumonia during the flu season as "flu-related" deaths, even though most are not confirmed to be infected with the flu virus.\nThe factual approximate flu-related pneumonia deaths per year, according to CDC data available to the public are as follows:\nAbout 600 to 3000 deaths each year, which translates into a death rate of about 1.7 to 8.3 persons per 1,000,000.\nThe range of influenza cases is from 34 to 130 million per year.\nThere is no correlation between the percent of the population innocculated for "flu" and either the "attributed" deaths or the percent of population getting the flu.\nAccording to the FDA in a period of 3 years 54,072 adverse reactions following vaccinations occurred in the U.S. and they admitted this total represented ten percent of the real total, because doctors were refusing to report vaccines injuries. In other words, adverse reactions for this period exceeded half a million!\nIs all about making money for big Pharma. They should just use the current antiviral "flu" drugs to treat those who contract the influenza virus and develop better antiviral drugs instead of pushing this harmful and useless vaccines.
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Check with your local health department. If you want, you can claim it is against your religion to have shots. I know it sounds funny, but they cannot discriminate against your religion.\n Chances are if it has been a long time since your last immunizations, you will have to repeat the series.
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no, reason being, that the virus for the common cold is ever changing. this is the same reason why we are seeing new strains of flu every year. and also the reason for the current strain of the bird flu. new strains are formed from the old viruses and they become stronger and immune to whatever "cures" we come up with. unless you can completely kill the virus, it will come back.
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Viruses - what you might catch this flu season is not the same as the "parent virus" - it evolved.
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Well,\n\nA person only gets one flu shot per season, so it would seem to me that the flu shot gives protection for the entire flu season.\n\nThen you get to do it again next year!
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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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Yes, I do believe there is something to the MMR link with autism. My son has autism,and I refuse immunizations, he has never received them, so I don't believe it is the sole cause of it. Some of the things you heard here are wrong. The flu shot still has thimerasol in it. While immunizations are no longer MANUFACTURED using thimerasol, it does still exist. Not only did we send thimerasol-tainted immunizations to other countries to spread autism there, we do still have it here. If you don't check with your dr., or request thimerasol-free immunizations, you still run the risk of dumping mercury into your child. The idea that all these studies 'prove' that there's no link? First, these are people who stand to lose a great deal of money by admitting a link to autism, both because of the law suits from families who have been injured by the shots, and to the people like me who will then refuse the shots simply because once you're lied to your not as likely to go back and trust again. Second, the reports that are saying there is a link, are coming from people who are in a position to conduct these kinds of tests because they were affected by autism, and want answers. I trust them more than I do a profession who used to tell patients with asthma and bronchitis to SMOKE. Now, we know better. How do we know in 30 years, after study upon study, they finally admit to the truth. How many kids were needlessly exposed in that amount of time? Also, here's one most people don't know: There was a report written by the CDC in which they admitted that the amount of mercury being put into the shots were many times about what is considered safe. That report was then suppressed, because of the panic it would cause, and because it would show people how untrustworthy they are. People need to do the research before blindly trust a system that has continuously lied to us, and change their minds from one year to the next as to what is safe or not. Oh, and the theory that the reason why there's more cases today is because of better diagnosis? Don't believe that,either. All the cases that they are looking at to say that there is a link are kids. If the 'better dx was the case, then we would have so many adults coming forward, getting tested, and finding out they have autism. Sorry, don't fall for any of that.\n   Do we know what causes it? Not really. At the same time, we can't rule anything out, either. My belief is that they are born with a TENDENCY to develop autism when exposed to certain environmental factors, like mercury exposure. In my child's case, it was brought out when we moved.
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(m)\n\nExpired medicines often don't work as well, and they can even be harmful. To make sure that you don't accidentally take an out-of-date medication, you should clean out your medicine cabinet every year, throwing away: \n\nAny medication that has changed color or formed a residue,\n \nAspirin or acetaminophen that is crumbly or smells strange,\n \nHydrogen peroxide that no longer bubbles when applied as a disinfectant, and \n\nEye drops that have expired.
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Last year, over 200,000 people were hospitalized and over 35,000 died from influenza.  The very young, very old, and those with pre-existing pulmonary & cardiac disease and those who are immunocompromised (chemo, immune system defects, HIV) are especially at risk.
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WOW, I just looked into this yesterday. We must all be feeling the cold and flu season this year. \n\nIt is the other way around, feed a cold, starve a fever and I found a couple of websites that were showing figures to studies conducted over the past few years that showed this to be more than 'an old wives tale'.\n\nHere is one of the links for you if you're interested.\n\nhttp://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1777\n\nKarma.\nx
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Unless you have had a prior chest xray that showed something I really don't know why they would do one every year. If your Doctor is having you get one every year ask him/her why. If you are a smoker that could be another reason.