Government health officials are mobilizing to launch a massive swine flu vaccination campaign this fall that is unprecedented in its scope — and in the potential for complications.
The campaign aims to vaccinate at least half the country’s population within months. Although more people have been inoculated against diseases such as smallpox and polio over a period of years, the United States has never tried to immunize so many so quickly.
This is so funny:
Among the unknowns: how many shots people will need, what the correct dosage should be, and how to avoid confusing the public with an overlapping effort to combat the regular seasonal flu.
What I fear:
The campaign is haunted by memories of the government’s ill-fated 1976 effort to vaccinate against swine flu. The epidemic fizzled, but the vaccine was given to 40 million people and blamed for causing a rare paralyzing disorder known as Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
Another wild card will be whether the vaccine will be delivered with an “adjuvant” to boost its effectiveness or stretch limited supplies into more doses. Adjuvants have been used in Europe, but the Food and Drug Administration has not authorized their use in the United States.
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“Although the vaccine will be free…”
I always hate it when someone refers to Government spending as something that is “FREE”. It’s not free, I have prepaid for a vaccine that I will not take.
I will wait and see what it does to the
guinea pigs“first responders”.Improbus got there first.
Yup, I have no objection to letting someone else try it first.
I’ll just stay away from the fast food potatoes and sit this one out.
Something else is going on.
http://drtenpenny.com/Documents/The_Truth_about_the_Flu_Shot.pdf
I’ll take advice of my sister, Pediatric Neurologist at the major university hospital with wall full of research and clinical awards. Neither she or her family (including children) nor any of her staff will take H1N1 vaccine… This is the first time I heard her advocating against any form of vaccination. (As this was exchanged in private communication I am not including her name, but creative Googling using my info will definitely bring her and her credentials up for confirmation.)
Oooh eeee oooh ah ah!
bing bang! walla walla bing bang!
Hey there Dusanmal, this whole flu seems to be a very scary thing and I have creatively googled and all of that. Is there anything you can link to that gives a good look at why this vaccine is to be avoided. Are the links here any good? Often times there is the tinfoil hat brigade that comes out no matter what is going on which is a lot like the Boy who cried Wolf. – It ends up making legitimate worries unheard since we hear and dismiss a lot of the stuff we hear as ‘noise’. Thanks much.
#6–”why” does your sister recommend not taking this vaccine?
Would she confirm or deny that even if we include for arguments sake that much of aids, at least in Africa, is caused by vaccines, the benefits of vaccines FAR EXCEEDS the harm?
Also just check base for us: how many people would have to die in the USA before she reconsidered her opinion.
Please get back to us before December so I don’t have to google her for updates.
Thanks much.
I wish people would see this for what it is. The swine flu vaccination campaign is nothing more then a Trial Run. There are many other “mundane and acceptable” diseases/accidents killing more people that the money spent here could stop.
The government is concerned about a remote potential for a Russian driven Smallpox Attack.
I’ll pass on this one also. Never had a flu shot and never will.
# 11 TripHamer, not if the government makes it madatory. You may think, the courts have said no, but; look what President Andrew Jackson did when the courts said no.
Glad Obama government taking proactive action to protect the public. We sure don’t need another Katrina-Bush response to a predicable public health issue.
Lincoln shit on the Constitution as well by suspending Habeas Corpus.
scary stuff indeed i whonder how this thing is gonna turn out
I wish Obama would stand by his campaign pledges and handle Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detainees in the U.S. courts.
Because he is listening to government officials in the DoD/NSA/CIA/FBI/DoJ trying to cover their ass, instead of; holding to his campaign pledges and what the public wants, I consider him a coward.
People say he is just being practical, I say, he is a coward.
And just like his Guantanamo Bay campaign pledges, he is talking about folding on heath care.
Supporters of Obama (I am a supporter) should call it as it is, Obama is being a coward!!!!!
Now see Bill Gates gets big claps for vaccines in Africa, look his helping those poor fucking niggers
But when it comes to the good old US of A, any old rightwing twat can stand up and spout off anyold UFO style crap so as many of you as is possible will die
AND he can still call BG a big fucking cunt, on account of his big fucking pile
Way to go Dvortwat
I’ll make my pig aware, thanks!
Could they just try it out on the religious people first? Show up at churches, tell them some nitwit had a vision and Jeebus wants them to have the shot.
I have three chronic illnesses and i’ll be damned if anyone is going to jab me.