Flu Vaccines---One More Time

At the risk of 'beating a dead horse' I'm 'going there' once more with important information about flu vaccines. I encourage everyone to become fully informed before deciding to get any flu vaccines. Please don't let the media hype (and there is a ton of it) guide your decisions. Please share this with those you love and care about.

Flu & Flu vaccine facts:
**The flu virus rarely causes death. Most “flu deaths” are due to bacterial pneumonia, which can occur with a weakened immune system.

**Serious reactions to the flu vaccine include, but are not limited to:
Life-threatening allergic reactions, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (a severe paralyzing disease), brain inflammation & other nervous system disorders, blood disorders

**Studies keep coming to the same conclusion: Flu vaccines do not work--and can cause harm. Before the CDC promoted vaccinating children under age 5, the number of children dying from the flu was very low (& declining). In 2003, children age 5 & under started getting vaccinated, resulting in a dramatic increase in the number of flu deaths in this age group.

**Check out this quote taken directly from the 2009-2010 flu vaccine FLULAVAL’s package insert--(which most people never read): " FLULAVAL is an influenza virus vaccine indicated for active immunization of adults 18 years of age and older against influenza disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and type B contained in the vaccine. This indication is based on immune response elicited by FLULAVAL, and there have been no controlled trials demonstrating a decrease in influenza disease after vaccination with FLULAVAL.” NO CONTROLLED STUDIES TO CHECK EFFECTIVENESS?? Hmmmm....

Some studies (boring, I know, but very revealing):
**October 2008 Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine: Vaccinating young children against the flu had no impact on flu-related hospitalizations or doctor visits during 2 recent flu seasons

**The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2006 (reviewed 51 studies): No evidence found to support that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo in children (Studies involved 260,000 children, age 6 to 23 months)

**2008 study, The Lancet (medical journal): Flu vaccination was not associated with a reduced risk of pneumonia in older people

**American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: No decrease in deaths from influenza and pneumonia in the elderly, even though vaccination coverage has increased in this age group from 15% in 1980 to 65% presently

**Early each year, 'vaccine experts' travel to Asia to assess which strains of the flu virus are currently active, assuming that the same virus strains will spread to the US by Fall. The US vaccine manufacturers start making that season’s flu vaccine, based on the virus strains found in Asia. If the viral strains circulating in the U.S. that season are not the same as the Asian strains, the vaccine is useless--(and potentially harmful).

**Ingredients found in flu vaccines: Thimerosol (mercury), Aluminum (neurotoxin linked to Alzheimer’s disease), Triton X-100 (detergent), Phenol, Ethylene glycol (antifreeze), Betapropiolactone (disinfectant)

Thanks for being an informed health care participant and taking ownership of your health. Our health is too valuable for anything less!

Blessings of health to you...
Sana