Ignore the flu vaccine

Battle3 · Sep 28, 2016

See the article for the links to the various sources.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/09/bill-sardi/ignore-flu-vaccine-propaganda/

Flu vaccination rates are so low as to be of little significance in heading off a flu epidemic. Most of the population is unvaccinated for the flu strain in circulation yet the flu is at all time low marks.

Adults over age 65 have the highest flu vaccination rate, close to 70%, probably because they are most at risk for mortal consequences from the flu. [FoxNews Sept 21, 2016]. But flu vaccination has not been effective in older age groups because the ability to produce antibodies to mutating flu viruses is limited among the aged. This fact is evidenced by the newly licensed high-dose flu vaccine specifically for adults over age 65. [Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report Aug 6, 2010] The primary reason why retirees get the flu is because their immune system is in decline, not because they are not vaccinated.

For the record, in 2013 those Americans over age 65 who chose to be vaccinated against the flu were just as likely to visit the doctor for flu symptoms as older adults who were unvaccinated. [Live Science Feb 21, 2013]

The Centers for Disease Control lists the effectiveness of flu vaccines for years 2005-2016 which never exceeded 60% and was as low as 10% in 2004-05 and 20% in 2005-06 and 23% in 2014-15. [CDC.gov, April 15, 2016] Its a crapshoot chance you might avert the flu by undergoing vaccination.

Flu viruses mutate so fast that even if a vaccine matches the flu strain in circulation that may not be the variety of the flu by mid flu season. ......And get this it is not just the circulating flu virus that mutates during the flu season, but also the very strain of the virus placed in a vial to be injected in patients. [Wired.com Oct 9, 2015; PLoS One March 25, 2014] Most of the time the strain of the flu virus in the vaccine does not match the flu strain in circulation.

The flu vaccine is one big scam.

waltky · Jun 28, 2017

Now there's a flu vaccine patch...

Needle-Free Flu Vaccine Patch Works as Well as a Shot
Jun 28 2017 - A press-on patch that delivers flu vaccine painlessly worked as well as an old-fashioned flu shot with no serious side effects, researchers reported Tuesday.

People who tried out the patch said it was not difficult or painful to use, and tests of their blood suggested the vaccine it delivers created about the same immune response as a regular flu shot, the team reported in the Lancet medical journal. The hope is the vaccine will be cheaper, easier to give and more acceptable than a regular flu vaccine. “It was really simple. It’s kind of like a band-aid almost,” said Daisy Bourassa, a college instructor who tested the new vaccine for the study. “It’s not like a shot at all. If I had to describe it is maybe like pressing down on the hard side of Velcro. It is like a bunch of little teeny tiny stick things that you can feel but it’s not painful.”

The team at Georgia Tech, and a spin-off company called Micron Biomedical, have been working on the patch vaccine for years. This was the first test using real flu vaccine, and the results show it caused immune responses very similar to those elicited by vaccine administered by syringe. “There were no treatment-related serious adverse events,” Dr. Nadine Rouphael of the Emory University School of Medicine and colleagues wrote in their report. It was a phase 1 trial, meant mostly to show safety in just 100 volunteers. That’s not enough to show whether the vaccine actually prevented any cases of influenza. That will take a larger trial to demonstrate. “The results were great,” Rouphael told NBC News. “We were pleased to see that the immune response was excellent.” Rouphael’s team were the experts in vaccinating, and were recruited by the Georgia Tech team to actually test the experimental patch.

The tiny needle-like points on the patch are made out of the vaccine itself. When pressed into the skin, the needles dissolve, delivering the dried vaccine into the outer layer of the skin. This layer is loaded with immune system cells that are the first line of defense against invaders such as bacteria and viruses. These cells take up the vaccine and use it to prime themselves against a flu infection. The trial showed that people could use the patch without any help and liked it. It also showed they had an immune response to the patch, and did not have any serious side-effects from using it. If it continues to work well in tests, Rouphael said it might be possible to just let people buy the vaccine patches and take them home to use.

They’ll be much easier to ship around the country and the world than current vaccines, which must be carefully refrigerated. Bourassa is a fan of the idea. “I think it would be fantastic if this was something you could get and administer it yourself at home,” she said. “The reason why many years I don’t get a shot is that I don’t have time to wait in a line or whatever. It would be really awesome if I could order it and it would be delivered like Amazon Prime.” Biomolecular engineering professor Mark Prausnitz of Georgia Tech, who leads the team developing the patch vaccines, said the vaccine stayed stable for as long as a year at temperatures up to 100 degrees F. Conditions like that would completely spoil a regular flu vaccine. “It is also really neat how you can keep it at room temperature,” Rouphael said. “It really simplifies the way we do vaccines. This could be a game-changer.”

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CKW · Jun 28, 2017

I've never had a flu shot and don't want one. I "sense" it's all useless hype. Plus the people I k now who religiously get it each year seem to get the flu...

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