Hoping they picked the right viruses this time, the five companies that make influenza vaccine plan to offer at least 143 million doses to Americans for the 2008-2009 flu season, the Associated Press reports.
The 2007-2008 flu season was indeed a tough one and many say that it was partly due to the fact the viruses used in the flu vaccine were ineffective against many of the viruses that actually circulated in the population. It is not easy to predict the exact virus strain that will circulate in the up coming season. Is it really worth getting the flu vaccine at all?
I encourage my patients to really investigate the use of vaccines in this country. The flu vaccine indeed still contains the preservative thimerosal (50% mercury). In 1999, many other vaccines eliminated the use of thimerosal as a preservative, but the flu vaccine still contains it. Recently, a lawsuit alleging mercury causes autism is to begin in U.S. Court of Claims as two Oregon families seek to prove that the thimerosal found in vaccines caused two 10-year-old boys to develop autism.
Thimerosal is in question here and with mercury being a potent neurotoxin and the second most toxic substance known to man behind uranium. It is enough for me to personally say no to the Flu vaccine.
Aside from the Flu Vaccine, I would also take a closer look at the vaccines that contain live-viruses. This includes the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine; chickenpox (varicella) vaccine; and the live-virus polio (Sabin) vaccine. Live-virus vaccinations hold a special risk due to the fact that free radicals can cause the latent viruses to transform by genetic mutation into disease-causing organisms later in life.
Finally, the schedule for vaccination needs to be investigated: Before a child reaches the age of two, he or she will have received 32 vaccinations on this schedule, including four doses each of vaccines for Hemophilus influenzae type b infections, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis -- all of them given during the first 12 months of life. Seven vaccines injected into a 13-pound, two-month old infant are equivalent to 70 doses in a 130-pound adult. Fifty years ago, when the immunization schedule contained only four vaccines (for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and smallpox), autism was virtually unknown. Health officials consider a vaccine to be safe if no bad reactions -- like seizures, intestinal obstruction or anaphylaxis -- occur acutely. The CDC has not done any studies to assess the long-term effects of its immunization schedule.
New knowledge in neuroimmunology (the study of how the brain's immune system works) raises serious questions about the wisdom of injecting vaccines in children less than 2 years of age. In humans, the most rapid period of brain development begins in the third trimester and continues over the first two years of extra uterine life. (By then, brain development is 80 percent complete.) Until randomized controlled trials demonstrate the safety of giving vaccines during this time of life, it would be prudent to question the administration of any vaccine to children under the age of 2-years.
As patients, we are our best advocates. I would never tell anyone what choice to make in terms of vaccination or any other health decision, we all know what is best for us as individuals. Education is the key. Knowledge is power. Consider this before you line up for your next flu shot or any other vaccination...
More information on vaccinations can be found at the National Vaccine information center: http://www.909shot.com/ and the Vaccine Awakening Blog at http://www.vaccineawakening.blogspot.com/
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