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Flu Shot
08.24.12 (12:34 am)   [edit]
Scientists are working on what sounds like a permanent flu shot; one which would be given once and would protect against all known flu strains.

Although it sounds great, would you get it yourself? Personally, I have only had the flu a few tiimes that I remember. I know I will be more suseptable as I get older, however I also don't go to many places with lots of people.

I also am one of the worry-warts that perhaps scientists will not have tested the thing enough and it could cause major health problems in the future. We just don't know.

Oh I know people will say that these things are tested carefully and will be safe. Gee, they said that about Thalidomide and many others. In APC tablets (also known as ASA Compound) there was Aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine. Phenacetin was withdrawn because of cancer and kidney disease.

My Mom and other parents of the 50's and 60's used to use paragoric on infants gums when they had teething pain. Paragoric is also known as 'tincture of opium'. Hmmm.... No longer available in the U.S.

Fen-phen was heavily marketed on telephone poles and fliers to sell as much as possible as a weight reduction drug. It was quickly pulled off the market due to heart valve disorders.

Look at this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Anyway, you get the idea.

I really don't have much faith in drug testing and would be leary of taking a "lifetime" innoculation that has only had limited testing. Testing on humans has only been in progress less than 2 years.

I think I'll wait a few lifetimes to see how things work out.

 


posted by: groovy1970 (reply)
post date: 08.25.12 (12:08 pm)

I've never got a flu shot in my life. I don't think I'd go for that, personally. People get sicker with the flu shot then catching the actual flu, that I've seen. ha!



posted by: Kram1000 (reply)
post date: 08.27.12 (8:33 pm)

That nano technology one is the one that worries me. They are throwing that stuff in everywhere. They way I interpret it, since the dawn of life on earth our bodies or the cells that make them up haven't had any interactions with such particles.
The scientists must be darn sure of themselves or certain there can be no ill effects.
Why am I not reassured?

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