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Should You Get the H1N1 Vaccine?

dr_manny_blog2There’s no doubt that this H1N1 flu, also known as swine flu, has been a real doozy. With more than 1 million people infected in the U.S. alone and approximately 263 deaths, attention must be paid to a potentially worsening condition.

I typically don’t like to scare people into paying attention to health care issues, but I do think that as soon as a vaccine becomes available here in the U.S. for the H1N1 virus, you should get it.

I recently learned of two alarming cases where pregnant women became affected with the H1N1 virus. Any type of flu can be quite devastating for a pregnant patient. The reason for the significant effect in pregnancy is that pregnant women typically have suppressed immune systems and their pulmonary compliance is significantly altered due to the pressure from the pregnant uterus. So when they get the flu, it could very quickly turn into a deadly pneumonia with very high degrees of complication for both the mother and the unborn child.

That was just the case with these two recent reports — one from Australia where a mother fell ill from the swine flu and ultimately the baby died in utero, and in the other case, a woman in Florida had to deliver at 27 weeks of gestation due to the flu, and the infant ultimately died from complications associated with his prematurity.

So the message is loud and clear: This new virus is very contagious. We don’t have natural immunity, and if you have any risk factors — especially if you’re pregnant — get the vaccine as soon as it is available.

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56 Responses to “Should You Get the H1N1 Vaccine?”

Comment by tonyb

I guess all of the cool aid drinkers are interested in something else

 
 
Comment by jim mcknight

should we get a swine flu shot along with a regular flu shot we are 75 year old seniors

 
Comment by Barbra

I have concerns over a vaccine that was developed so quickly. What will the side effects be? Will the virus mutate right after everyone is vaccinated, making them susceptible again? So far this virus doesn’t seem to have been any worse than the regular influenza virus regarding the number of contracted cases (which are not confirmed btw) and the number of deaths. So what is supposed to make this one so scary? I’ve heard talk that things aren’t so bad now but when flu season hits, it could become catastrophic. Well it’s flu season for those in the southern hemisphere right now and it doesn’t seem to be catastrophic to them. Sorry but, when you look at the facts, somethings just don’t add up. I’m in no rush to put an untested, rushed into production vaccine in mine or my children’s bodies over a flu virus that is no more threatening than the regular flu. If people would just use common sense and stay home when they are sick, this wouldn’t even be an issue. Washing your hands does wonders too!

 
Comment by Julia

I receiced a flu shot in the 80’s, shortly after I had GBS. Down for several weeks. Fortunatly a full recovery. 1999, MS. My doctor said no more Flu shots ever. What’s your opinion.

 
Comment by James

Novartis, the second contender, also has an agreement with WHO for a pandemic vaccine. Novartis appears to have won the contract, since their vaccine is near completion. What is terrifying is that these pandemic vaccines contain ingredients, called immune adjuvants that a number of studies have shown cause devastating autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and lupus.

Animal studies using this adjuvant have found them to be deadly. A study using 14 guinea pigs found that when they were injected with the special adjuvant, only one animal survived. A repeat of the study found the same deadly outcome.

So, what is this deadly ingredient? It is called squalene, a type of oil. The Chiron company, maker of the deadly anthrax vaccine, makes an adjuvant called MF-59 which contains two main ingredients of concern—squalene and gp120. A number of studies have shown that squalene can trigger all of the above-mentioned autoimmune diseases when injected.

The MF-59 adjuvant has been used in several vaccines. These vaccines, including tetanus and diphtheria, are the same vaccines frequently associated with adverse reactions.

Don’t get the vaccine, these vaccines do not work and contain deadly ajuvant’s. The vaccine contains chicken embryos (eggs)
influenza virus, H5N1
virus culture .The H5N1 in this vaccine for H1N1 will cause an antigenic shift in the virus causing a more potent and deadly virus, and with the dangerous adjuvents high mortality.

 
Comment by Elise

I have a healthy, happy 17 month-old daughter. I was also recently diagnosed with Graves disease. I don’t know if this would be considered a risk factor or not. Should I look into getting the vaccine for both myself and my daughter?

 
Comment by Monica

Dr. Manny needs to get his statistics right!And it sickened me to see him smugly shrug off the report from the past H1N1 vaccine mistake. More people died and or where permanently injured from the swine flu vaccine years ago…Hardly anyone even got the swine flu. And the ones that did recovered just fine. It was a mistake then and is a mistake now. Please don’t get the shot! Why can’t these doctors just teach a healthier life style and clean hygiene??? We are naturally equipped to fight off diseases! So should we get the H1N1 vaccine? absolutely NOT! but if you decide to keep in mind what happened the last time.

 
Comment by Bobby

I will not be getting the Vaccine under any circumstance, in many cases, the vaccine is more deadly than the virus itself. The media is making this issue far greater than it is in an attempt to fearmonger. These vaccined may be mandated for all Americans, and they may vaccinate in your childrens schools. Thousands of people die every year from seasonal flu, but everyone is worried about having just a couple hundred people dead from the new virus. The vaccine was patented before the flu found its way into the public, which is odd. In 1976, the vaccine led to many deaths. Swine flu is a scam to gain power.

 
Comment by plauge12

I will not take any flu shot for any reason what so ever period.I herd you say that you have a autistic son,my question sir if you knew that the mercury was in the vaccines why would you go on national television and try to sell the public on this death trap.I really hope there is some humanity left in you sir (With all due respect)you will take along look at your family,and really do some research on this subject. Vaccine companies has been caught putting sv-40 cancer viruses in them,just weeks ago in Idaho a baby died and mother claimed vaccines did it,of course the doctors and the medical community denied the whole thing and said oh it was sids,yea right,with foam coming out of his mouth,If the baby died of sids then why are they going to pay her 250,000 dollars,No accountability.People are waking up to what is going on with the federal government and all there lies,Democrat or Republican there are both selling the American people out,no matter what any main stream corporate media tries to sell us, we sir are not buying any more just look for a big fight coming this fall,The American people are arming there self against tyranny.I mean seven Republicans voted for Sonia Sotomayer,have you read her book,her veiws on the 2nd amendment are Treasonist and horrible,just know millions of people are preparing to just say NO.We the people can not take any more abuse of powers from are elected officials.

 
Comment by suzanne

EVERY single year (without fail) that I’ve gotten a flu shot – I’ve gotten the flu so bad (been very sick) and in bed for 10 to 12 miserable days! EVERY single year that I’ve not gotten a flu shot – I do fine – no flu ! So I stopped years ago and started boosting my immune systen through the help and direction of a great local health food store. My all-over health has improved in recent years. No more need for perscriptions (and their toll-taking, ill effects) for me. :)

FYI to FOX: Health Care should be about improving our good HEALTH. We need to take a good look at our food supply and improve it, and promote GOOD HEALTH for everyone – not dependence on perscriptions (driven sky high in costs by lawyers!) Go back in time just 50 years and compare our nations health. It was SO much better. Then go back another 50 to 100 years and compare. Our foods and lifestyle are our major culprits. Everyone used to walk to work and school. One car per household – if that! Stress? My grandmother’s never had pap smears, (their was no such thing and no such need then) but then my grandmother’s were manogamous, of course. Both lived into their 90’s (1970’s). They never had life insurance, burial insurance, or health insurance either (nor did my great-grandparents) – but why would they? There was no need for it then. And finally, Medicare was a NIGHTMARE for them….and for all of us trying to help them to benefit from it. HEALTH………not health care!

 
Comment by Monica

That would be a NO for me….Just take a look at this first then make an educated decision..
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/670.html

 
Comment by Bobby

I will not be taking the vaccine, it is a scam to gain power. They want us all to be drugged up. This is just like taking the Koolaid. The vaccine may prove to be more deadly than the virus itself, and that proved to be true in 1976. The vaccine was patented here in the US before the virus was even public. They want to mandate that everyone gets this vaccine, and I don’t buy it. They want to vaccinate your children as well in the schools. How would you like the National Gaurd coming to your school and giving out vaccines. This is scary stuff, and I do not trust the government enough to take the vaccine. The safest thing you can do is not take the vaccine.

 
Comment by Daniel Eufrausino

Hi my name Daniel Eufrausino, and I was wondering do I need to take the Vaccine swine virus if I am in Itapeva-Brazil, its about 5 hours south of the city called Sao Paulo. The population here is about 90,000
people. I’m a big fan on foxnews channel, I always watch it on my cable tv here called SKY to not feel home sick.

 
Comment by Roger

more lies from dr. paid of by OBAMA’S BOYS & THE CDC !!
communist & Population control

 
Comment by Tammy Kicklighter

What will be different about this vaccine versus the vaccine of 1976 that killed so many? How can we reassure patients that this is a different vaccine? Thank you!

 
Comment by Nivea Suarez

I have microscopic colitis, under control with medication. The only symptom I still live with is stomach cramps during the night, depriving me of much needed sleep. Upon having a BM in the AM, the cramps go away and usually do not return until I go to sleep again. My doctor has not been able to give me any relief for the cramps.

It will be three years this fall that I deal with this condition. I eat a healthy diet and my weight is good. I have high b/p and cholesterol, but take medicine for that.

Lately, I’ve been thinking that I may be allergic to fruits. Can any test be done to check if that is true? The medicines I take for the microscopic colitis are: Asacol, 2 three times a day and Entocort, one a day. That keeps the diarrhea under control. I have one normal bowel movement most days.

I exercises 3 times a week doing water aerobics and am basically in good condidion for a 77 year old female. I weigh 122 lbs and am 4 feet 11 inches.

I thank you in advance for your kind attention to my inquiry.

Sincerely,

Nivea Suarez

 
Comment by Lori

Under NO circumstances should you get the swine flu vaccine. Remember the 1976 swine flu pandemic that fell apart? Thousands of people were injured, many died from the vaccine than from the actual swine flu. These vaccines are dangerous & should be pulled from the market until their safety is proven. There is mercury (under the name of Thimerosal), aluminum, formaldehyde, antifreeze & other poison in these vaccines. In the ingredient list, there is NO mention of the disease you are being vaccinated against. Don’t believe me? Look for yourself.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf

This about population control & keeping the people under control. 1931 mercury was first put in vaccines & in 1931 the first case of autism was diagnosed. THOUSANDS of children have died from vaccines. Pandemics have been caused by vaccines. (google Philippines polio pandemic after vaccination, everyone who got sick was vaccinated)

This is a manmade virus, not a naturally occuring virus. A combination of swine, avian & flu isn’t something that happens in the course of life & the fact that they have a vaccine so quickly is a BIG red flag.

If you value your life or the lives of those you care about, tell them do NOT get this vaccine.

 
Comment by Pamela

There is no way I will allow my family to be injected with this hastily developed vaccine.This fall there could be a plan underway to set up shot clinics in schools for children. I have read that these swine flu shots could become mandatory. I have a six year old daughter and there is no way on earth I will allow her to receive this untested vaccine. I am not anti vaccination… my daughter is up to date on all her school shots… I’m just terrified of the possible untried side of effects this shot could produce in my healthy, vibrate child. People beware. Don’t line up like sheep. Get informed!

 
Comment by Pamela

I can’t believe only 16 people have commented on this topic. Where is my last comment about this subject? No way will my family be receiving this hastily developed vaccine! People do no line up like sheep. Get informed.

 
Comment by Pamela

People, please do not line up like sheep for this hastily developed vaccine. Get informed!

 
Comment by Rachelle Dickerson

If your wondering why it seems as though our government is blowing this virus way out of proportion, it’s because the Obama administration has people in place (our science Czar) that have written about population control by forced sterilization and contaminants in our water supply and they would all love to have the authority to inject unknown substances into our bodies. All of this hoopla over Swine Flu is leading us down the path to stick our arms out to be pumped up full of who-knows-what. Please know that if you, your spouse or your child react severely or even die from the vaccine, you cannot even sue the vaccine makers as they have been granted immunity from litigation thanks to Bush. If your child ends up with autism, ADD guess who will be taking care of them?? Your on your own.

 
Comment by Hedy Santana

I believe this flu was man made with the only purpose for some drug company to make millions of money, yes, there is no ethics and I truly believe it will kill a lot of people in order to justify it. Remember AIDS? nobody dies from it now, but it cost a lot of money in drugs to stay alive. Back in the 70’s there was a “swine vaccine” and I took it, but when I called the center for disease control in the USA at Atlanta,Ga, was told there was none, so the “effects” that can happen years later, nobody knows and will never know.

 
Comment by Kyle Dove

IF the gov’t mandates this swine flu vaccination, then somebody is up to no good. Why do I say that? Because people have been choosing for years, for themselves, whether they get a flu shot or not. And to mandate something that would kill more people than the flu itself, well, you get the picture. I am 45 yrs old and have never had the flu shot. I’ve had the flu maybe 3 times in my life. Since when does your health need to be controlled by the gov’t?? Oh, that’s right, that’s what they’re goal is, huh? You always take a chance when you get the flu shot because of all the dangerous chemicals they put in it but it is good to know there are some people out there that know what happened in the 1970’s! EVERYBODY needs to know. Let’s see….the flu or paralysis…..hmmm? Which one would I rather have? So, if they’re going to create a panic about a flu, what do you think they will do if something really dangerous happens? Detention camps, quarantines, etc…….?????

We’re in for some rough times, my friends. Good luck to all of us!

 
Comment by Magda

I am currently pregnant and no way am I getting anywhere near this new vaccine. It took 5 days to test this – 5 DAYS !!! Am I willing to take the chance of what this vaccine might do to me or my unborn child? Is there any mention of side effects? Of course not. Do they even know what the side effects could be?
This fear mongering and drug pushing is getting way out of hand…

 
Comment by Jen

Please be informed. The Swine Flu Vaccine has NOT been developed!! I work in the pharmacutal industry and there is currently NO Swine Flu Vaccine. WHEN they do delvelop the vaccine, it won’t be unitl the end of 2009. But in the meanwhile, please get vaccinated for the flu virus.

 
Comment by Barbra

On the subject of forced vaccination, I think it’s important that we all remember, we the people outnumber those in the government. We the people have more power than we realize, when we stand together. Don’t forget what our brave ancestors did for us. And don’t throw it away. We don’t have to be sheep!!!

 
Comment by Lori

Jen, nodoby in our house will be getting the flu vaccine. Everyone I know that gets it ends up getting sick for days. Plus do you realize how much mercury is in the flu vaccine? Look at my post earlier about ingredients, Thimerosal (which is 50% mercury) ins in vaccines along with many others.

The 1918 flu pandemic killed everyone who was vaccinated.

http://www.whale.to/vaccine/sf1.html

The pharmaceutical industry is a 1 TRILLION dollar a year industry. They are going to do everything they can to protect that income or increase it.

Speak out now on this & don’t line up like a sheep for the slaughter.

 
Comment by Elisa

I am from Norway and i will not take the H5N1 vaccine. I know also people get sick from vaccine and i really hope people dont take the vaccine beacouse it is poison in it.

 
Comment by Kate Paris

Really…people died from being vaccinated in 1918???? HAHAHA…there was no flu vaccine in 1918. Really, get informed before placing stupid remarks on this site! The current influenza vaccines contain only DEAD flu virus. People get sick from it for several reasond: 1. It takes a full two weeks for the vaccine to be effective, leaving one vulnerable to infection. 2.) Some people have an immune system that reacts strongly to the vaccine, causing a fever, muscle aches, etc. These symptoms are no way as serious as the actual infection. 3.) No vaccine is 100% effective. Some years the vaccine turns out to be only 40% effective. You could be infected by a virus not covered by the currect vaccine. But people….the vaccine does NOT CAUSE influenza! If you have a history of GBS or are allergic to eggs, don’t take the vaccination. Once the flu season begins, are you planning on staying home for the duration if you avoid the vaccine? Some people will do anything to avoid going to work!

 
Comment by K

Kate, you might want to check your facts… ever hear of FluMist? It’s a live virus, and FluMist is the preferable vaccination method right now. Not everyone gets the shot these days.

 
Comment by Rhonda Myers

Please people!!! Inform yourselves! Research and study! If your government recommends it – RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!! I have a friend in ICU this moment with GBS after receiving this vaccine 3-4 weeks ago. Research the disaster of 1976. Study the debilitating side effects of vaccines that have been forced on us and our children for years by our government. Do all you can to stay healthy without expecting drugs – especially mandated drugs- to keep or make you well. Good hygiene, healthy diet, exercise and rest go a long way to keeping you well!!! Pray always!

 
Comment by docsooner

I am a practicing physician and find this “swine” or H1N1 flu very confusing to begin with. It is frustrating and fiscally wasteful to see our government spend so much money (over $2 billion and counting) with frightfully poor advice and misinformation. This novel strain is a fourth generation H1N1 flu from 1918 and is coexisting with the seasonal H1N1 flu as we speak (basically cousins). The “kill” rate is comparable and despite its odd “reassortment”, it is relatively weak and comparable in mortality to the seasonal. To showcase science, goverment bureaucracy and politics as pertaining to healthcare reform, this pandemic begins April 15…we have a primetime news conference and announce stockpiling anti-virals and fast track vaccination. First the anti-virals (osweltamivir) are marginally helpful and there is increasing resistance to BOTH the novel H1N1 and seasonal H1N1. Now we dole out hundreds of millions of dollars to three pharmaceutical firms who announce we will have up to 600,000,000 vaccines ready by mid October-November. Yet we will have far less seasonal flu vaccines, which has killed over 36,000 this year in the U.S. alone. Reason? Money. The last mass GOV U.S. vaccination series in 1976 occured with the H1N1″swine” also…strange as the H1N1 was extinct from 1957-1975. Remember that disaster and the harm to the public? Hope we are not “seeding” the public, because we could leak a REALLY bad strain some day and not be as lucky as in 1975 and April 2009.

 
Comment by Al Brown

Let me tell you why I believe I would not encourage this vaccine for children. The CDC has been pushing this vaccine for two years. Even when it looked like there would be no epidemic after all, they seemed to push harder. Also, whenever I see so much pressure to do something, like sign a stimulus bill using terms like: The country will go bankrupt if we don’t, I become suspicious.

France has said they will use catacombs to store the vast numbers of the dead, but only 67 people there have died from the flu. Clearly there is strong rhetoric and an almost frenetic global push orchestrated by some to have these vaccinations worldwide. Do you trust them? Seriously. The number of dead from this illness is miniscule to the amount of people who die annually for the regular flu and these numbers include the elderly. Something seems amiss here. Tell the truth. Has it also crossed your mind that something is just not right? I say trust your instincts.

“Trust us”, they say? No, I don’t believe I will.

 
Comment by Al Brown

Just look at the knee jerk vitriolic reactions, statements and the postings of absolute gloom and doom by anyone who would dare to disagree with taking this vaccination. Who are these people on the attack? They clearly seem to be using an attack handbook on anyone who would have the odacity to question this procedure. Just searching the web for a while quickly led me to see some a distinct pattern as though they have been trained and readied for this. It is as if they speak in one voice. They are an army. Don’t believe me, try searching Google for a while.

They have books and figures at the ready as well as images of dying children and apocolyptic and dire warnings. When have you ever seen a reaction like this? I am telling you people, something is up.

 
Comment by docsooner

There are essentially two H1N1 influenza A viruses circulating. One is the seasonal flu H1N1, responsible for 36,000 deaths in the U.S. and the other the much ballyhooed “swine” novel H1N1 accounting maybe for 200 deaths. This swine flu of course, is not a swine flu and comes about with an improbable mix of North American swine, European swine, a watered down bird genome and of course H1N1..now the fourth generation. Wonder if this is man made? The good news is that the novel H1N1 is mild and probably less likely to do as much harm, so why the clamor? Money plus the showcasing of government, politicians and pharma as not only being “scientific”, but acting in our best interest. Bull. We will have up to 600,000,000 doses of the “fast-tracked”swine vaccine and perhaps 150,000,000 of the better suited trivalent flu vaccine. We spent over 2 billion dollars to purchase worthless osweltamivir (high resisitance), N95 masks and the “new” vaccine doled to Baxter, Novartis and GSK. Remember that H1N1 began as the “Spanish flu” in 1918, became extinct circa 1957 and unexplicably “re-emerged” in 1975-76 in a cohort of soldiers at Fort Dix. Then came the government program of the infamous “swine flu” vaccine that was fast tracked and caused more deaths than the virus itself. Recall the economic conditions then in 1976. Look for sporadic outbreaks all summer and fall as we have plenty of “seeds”. I just hope some idiot in a lab won’t accidentally release a more virulent hybrid.

 
Comment by Taavi

The vaccine is no different from flu vaccines developed annually. There’s no point in comparing current vaccines to those developed in 70s or even those developed in 1918… It would be like comparing a piston engine powered aircraft to e jet fighter. Vaccines developed nowadays are much more effective and safer than those developed earlier. Think about it.

 
Comment by Roger

VACCINES ARE POPULATION CONTROL WAKE UP AMERICA !! THEY ARE OUT TO GET
US !!

Go to July 27, 3rd hour. Dr. Deagle.

You may want to download the show so you can share with others.

http://gcnlive.com/archive.php?program=nutrimedical

Deagle is right when he suggest it could be race specific as germ warfare can narrow a killer germ down to a certain group/family within an area. Let say German’s in NYC, or Hispanics in LA, its the gene pool that matters. Whole nations can be targeted such as Chinese, Russians, Persians, who ever.

Add in weather wars, dying bees, drought, famine, aids, need I go on? Oh yes, HAARP, chemtrails/aerosol spraying, which we breath and eat. Can I check out now please? Economic woes, inflation, oil and gas coming problems, wars and rumors of wars. Uncle, uncle, uncle, you?

 
Comment by Roger

The 1918 Influenza Epidemic was a Vaccine-caused Disease

I. Honorof, E. McBean (Vaccination The Silent Killer p28)
Source: Dr. Rebecca Carley
Very few people realize that the worst epidemic ever to hit America, the Spanish Influenza of 1918 was the after effect of the massive nation-wide vaccine campaign. The doctors told the people that the disease was caused by germs. Viruses were not known at that time or they would have been blamed. Germs, bacteria and viruses, along with bacilli and a few other invisible organisms are the scapegoats, which the doctors like to blame for the things they do not understand. If the doctor makes a wrong diagnosis and treatment, and kills the patient, he can always blame it on the germs, and say the patient didn’t get an early diagnosis and come to him in time.

If we check back in history to that 1918 flu period, we will see that it suddenly struck just after the end of World War I when our soldiers were returning home from overseas. That was the first war in which all the known vaccines were forced on all the servicemen. This mish-mash of poison drugs and putrid protein of which the vaccines were composed, caused such widespread disease and death among the soldiers that it was the common talk of the day, that more of our men were being killed by medical shots than by enemy shots from guns.

 
Comment by Roger

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Lab 257 is a call to action for those concerned with protecting present and future generations from preventable biological catastrophes.

 
Comment by James

This is not 1976 people, its 2009! i think it is safe to say that we are more advanced in this stuff then we were in 1976. And whats this about the natinal guard comming to give you vaccines? what is that? nobody is forced to take anything. some of these people are crazy. if you dont want the vaccine, then dont take it, take your chances with the flu that people are dieing from. its your choice. and you can counter every story. i have had many flu shots with great success so dont always listen to what people say.

http://www.therealtennessean.com for news without liberal spin.

 
Comment by Janelle

I am a physician who specializes in infectious diseases. In reading these comments, it saddens me that there is such an anti-vaccine sentiment going around part of our population. While every therapy has the potential for side effects, vaccines have improved markedly over the past 50 years. Time and time again, qualitiy randomized studies have showed no link between vaccines and autism. This is not an attempt at “population control” or any other nefarious purpose the conspiracy theorists have thought of. This is an attempt to protect the population. The more people are protected in a population, the more the unvaccinated in the population are protected. Getting a vaccine is good for you and the people around you!
In a side-note, while swine origin influenza now appears to be fairly benign, the medical community is concerned for the following reasons. The last great flu pandemic of 1918 started in a very similary fashion. The first wave was not particularly lethal, hit at the end of the usual flu season, focused on the young, and had a higher propensity to cause viremia (body-wide distribution of virus) instead of local lung infection. The second wave was the deadly wave. Due to the similarities, you can see our concerns.
As for me, I’ll roll up my sleeve and take the vaccine gladly and thank the manufacturer afterwards.

 
Comment by Kathleen46

This debate is just the tip of the iceberg. The notion of “should” is about to leave the American vocabulary. If Codex Alimentarius (World Food Code) is allowed to become US law (which will happen on December 31, 2009 unless we stop it!) the United Nations (WHO & WTO) will be deciding for all citizens of THIS country. Check out “http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=161″ if you don’t believe this. Or, for an eye opening video, go to “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_isdBSrBihk&ann” … this should be a real talking point on all Fox transmissions to bring awareness to our Congress that they must act before going home for Thanksgiving. The flu shots are just the beginning and this dialog needs to shift back to freedom of choice.

 
Comment by Carl

My wife is pregnant and the baby is due this Feb. She works in a low-income school district and sick kids are sneezing and coughing on her all day long. The parents send their kids to school this way as they have no one to watch them otherwise. Our concern is with my wife being exposed to the swine flu vs. the very new swine flu shot. We have talked to several doctors and gotten mixed messages. She is considering just quitting her job and staying home to avoid the exposure but that would be tough financially. Is it possible that schools will start closing again as soon as 1 kid gets sick???

 
Comment by mary

WHY CAN”T THE GOVERNMENT step in and push the start of the school year back two months and just tack it on the end of the year? I think this H1N1 is REALLY going to take off when school starts and daycares become busy again. These tough economic times are going to push parents to pedal off their sick children to the schools and daycares just so they don’t loose their job. I’ve seen it over and over again when the country wasn’t facing a viral crisis. I’m an ER nurse and see/hear this behavior ALL THE TIME! I really really wish someone would take the big step in instituting a postponement of the start of school across the country. It will help more then it will hurt anyone. After all it’s better to be safe then sorry.
Mary

 
Comment by Russ Nail

I don’t trust this ‘government’ – I actully think there are some people in the government ’so called health service” … that actually want peopl to die… Their thinking is that it will help our planet to to stay green – by having less people – and it will help to solve the unfunded Socila Security problem as well… (Dead folks don’t collect on all that money that they’ve paid it over their entire lifetime. That’s what this WHOLE Obama care hoax is about – giving ‘the government’ to ability to actually kill off a good number of folks… Hech the new Science Czar actually wrote a book on how to kill off – those in our society that are unproductive… (i.e they produce less that $30K in ‘value’ each year – that’s the UK cutoff of providing their rationed care.

Yeah !! THAT would be the day that I’d let some Obama Czar – order a needle of ANYTHING stuck into my body…. It’s a sad state of affairs when a good American like me – just doesn’t trust anything that our government is telling us today. I remember TARP, Porkulus, Cap & Tax, – and that’t just what they’ve done in the LAST SIX months !!

 
Comment by jackg

I’m a 54-year-old physician, I’ve never had a flu shot in my life, and the last time I had the flu was around age 8. I’ve always believed that by artificially introducing “immunity” via injection of viral constituents and highly toxic adjuncts, the body is actually weakened and made more vulnerable. Please google squalene, which will be in the H1N1 vaccination. Injected, it will very likely kill you. Don’t be stupid about what you allow into your body. Don’t blindly let the government and others persuade you. Do a little research. The internet can save your life.

 
Comment by Bob Up

When this shot starts killing people will you stand up and say” I TOLD YOU SO?”

 
Comment by Robomarkov

Dr. Manny,

Der Spiegel recently had an interview with an epidemiologist regarding H1N1.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,637119,00.html

After reading the above article, it seems that the best and most effective defense against H1N1 is simply frequent washing of one’s hands with soap and warm water. My own research of of H1N1 (via news articles and WHO and CDC reports) show that the mortality rates of this new strain are no worse and maybe even LESS than regular seasonal flu. I see lots of hype and little substance. It really does seem that a cry of “pandemic” is big business hoping to profit from fear and suffering.

What say you, Doctor?

 
Comment by Bonnie Perine

Would YOU take a new drug that had been tested ONLY 5 DAYS? The results of this research is not public knowledge.

 
Comment by KB

My Father regularly got flu shots during his later years. I would take him in for them. He was never affected by the vaccine, fortunately, and did not contract the flu, either. But he kept away from large groups of people during the height of fly season, too. My husband, on the other hand, got a flu shot through work, as he’s a police officer and is subjected to lots of germs, mostly from co-workers. He was sick as a dog for almost 2 weeks, and has refused to get a flu shot ever since. He’s been lucky and hasn’t gotten the flu really seriously. I was reading the paperwork on the flu shot while in the doctor’s office with my Dad and discovered that Thimerosol is an ingredient in the general flu vaccine. It was also an ingredient in contact lens solution, which is how I found out I was allergic to it. So…………no flu shots for me, either.

We figure that washing hands with hot water and soap goes a long way to cutting down on harmful bacteria. Trying to stay healty does, too. So, we will take our chances, and just reduce contact with large groups of people during flu season whenever possible.

The government is pushing vaccines because they fear being sued for not doing enough, which is what we know will happen. “Thus lawyers doth make cowards of us all”………and common sense and practicality go out the window. Take lawyers out of health care and costs would go down a LOT. Just ask any doctor about malpractice insurance premiums…….

 
Comment by NeverAsleep

WAKE UP, PEOPLE! http://www.legitgov.org (citizens for legitimate government) is a MUST READ website, if you value your life, concerning the H1N1 vaccine!!!!! WHO, CDC, Big Pharma and worldwide governments are complicit in a conspiracy. This flu and “vaccine” is a laboratory made pandemic designed for worldwide genocide. It’s interesting to note that pregnant women and children are going to be targeted for the initial “testing” of this untested vaccine in the US, before it goes public.

http://magickdragonfly.com/2009/07/12/american-chronicle-swine-flu-outbreak-or-bioterrorism-and-intent-to-commit-mass-murder/

http://www.knowthelies.com

 
Comment by Mary Tocco

This flu shot is completely unsafe and untested. To say that because a few people have died justifies that all Americans, especially children and pregnant mothers get the shot, is totally bad advice! There are more people dying from so many other illnesses and usually because of other complications. The vaccines in previous years also contained H1N1 viruses, this is nothing new. To see for yourself, look up the flu vaccine ingredients listed on http://www.novaccine.com and you will see H1N1 virus listed in many.
Here are some FACTS about this “political” vaccine that most people are not aware of:
•The flu shot will contain Thimerosal, a form of mercury that has been proven very toxic. Eli Lilly was the first to make Thimerosal.
•Department of Defense during WW2 said Eli Lilly must label Thimerosal a “Poison”
•1948 – Blue Ribbon Panel of doctors appointed by Congress recommend Thimerosal be removed from all human products
•1956 – CDC received reports on the toxicity of Thimerosal
•1971 Eli Lilly’s own study discerned that it was “Toxic to tissue cells” in concentrations as low as one part per million
•That is 100 times weaker than in typical vaccine given to babies last 20 years
•Trace amounts are still considered toxic levels
•The EPA estimated that 1 in 6 children (up to 630,000 children per year) born in US has unsafe blood levels of mercury at birth (Mahaffey, 2004)
•These levels are high enough to cause a decline in IQ at an estimated annual cost of 8.7 billion

 
Comment by Mary Tocco

This flu shot is completely unsafe and untested. To say that because a few people have died justifies that all Americans, especially children and pregnant mothers get the shot, is totally bad advice! There are more people dying from so many other illnesses and usually because of other complications. The vaccines in previous years also contained H1N1 viruses, this is nothing new. •
•The EPA estimated that 1 in 6 children (up to 630,000 children per year) born in US has unsafe blood levels of mercury at birth (Mahaffey, 2004)
•These levels are high enough to cause a decline in IQ at an estimated annual cost of 8.7 billion (Trasande, 2005)
•The developing brain is considconsiderably more susceptible to damage by mercury when compared to the adult brain (Clarkston, 2002)
•Even moderate doses causes extensive brain damage and mental retardation (Bertossi, 2004)
•Despite numerous studies, there is no “level of exposure that is convincingly harmless-especially to the developing fetus” (Cranmer, 1996)
•Formaldehyde- Formalyn (formalin) is a 37 percent solution of gaseous formaldehyde which includes methanol. (Used in vaccines as a tissue fixative) Formaldehyde solution (formalin) is considered a hazardous compound and it is vapor toxic.
•Polysorbate 80 shown to cause infertility in mice
•Sodium Chloride and Calcium Chloride
•Monosodium Glutamate (MSG):C5H8NNaO4, a Stabilizer MSG -MSG intolerance: There have been numerous studies of allergies and/or sensitivities to MSG,

 
Comment by Mary Tocco

The first to get the vaccine are pregnant women, people who live with or care for children younger than 6 months of age, health care and emergency services personnel, persons between the ages of 6 months through 24 years of age, and people from ages 25 through 64 years who are at higher risk for novel H1N1, they say because of chronic health disorders or compromised immune systems. The groups listed above total approximately 159 million people in the United States. They are recommending that everyone get three (3) shots this year. This has NEVER been tested to show that it is safe.
If you or your child die or are severly injured, the government has protected the vaccine manufactures from any litigation. The is proof that all vaccines can lead to micro-vascular strokes within hours after the vaccine. Unfortunately, doctors and parents are not looking closely for complications such as strokes and they are un-noticed. It is only when the child shows lack of development in language and development skills that parents begin to wonder… what happened. The signs were there all along but missed by parents and doctors who refuse to look too close.
From the Center of DiseaseControl – What are the signs and symptoms of this virus in people? The symptoms of novel H1N1 flu virus in people are similar to the symptoms of seasonal flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.
To recommend this vaccine for children and pregnant mothers is neglegent and is an unscientific experiment on humanity. As a health reporter, I would expect you to get the FACTS on something before you recommend it. You are just a puppet who is saying what they want you to say! Wake up or be the first to stand in line for your shot….and you can have mine too! 

 
Comment by Chas

It’s a shame there aren’t more psychiatrists available because the paranoia is rampant here. Everybody thinks they are a scientist, epidemiologist, physician. Their common conclusions are that the government, medical care, big business wants them dead. The fundamental problem is lack of trust with a side of ignorance. Vaccines have saved far more lives than have been lost.

People are dirty and you can’t shame people into being cleaner (although the churches sure try). All the fringies can take their stand on this board but we’ll see how many stoically die at home of their flu shunning health care to their grave.

Trying to explain statistics to a lottery culture is futile. Your odds of dying of influenza is much higher than winning a lottery but people line up weekly for tickets but skip the flu vaccine.

Only time will tell which side was right but you can use your science now to take an advantage.

 

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