Comments on: Study: Kids’ Flu Shots Protect Everyone

By: JEssica

JEssica — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:57:37 +0000

I think the there was a study done on flu vaccines that essentially said they were not effective at targeting the correct flu for the season. And personnally every time I get the flu shot, I get the flu (although people tell me it is not the flu, just the symptoms of the flu).

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:11:28 +0000

It certainly is true that vaccinating at-risk groups helps the population as a whole. However, I think Miki Speed’s concern is (obviously) well grounded. This is why it must remain an individual choice. We are a society that is quick to legislate, and we are headed that way on this matter. Each vaccine, like any new technology, requires early adopters and skeptics. That’s how we as a society vet a new product. Keep trying to convince people to use a vaccine through studies like this one, not by using lines like the author’s last one.

By: Miki Speed

Miki Speed — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:56:19 +0000

JBoogie- with all due respect I cried a lot harder and longer when I held mine as his brain suffered so much cortical atrophy that he never walked, talked or scratched an itch and then died from vaccine damage. (DTP- whole cell which was later formulated as DTaP with a dead cell pertussis component for more safety. Unfortunately, MY kid was one of the guinea pigs that forced them to reformulate.
I am NOT telling no one to stop vaxing, or which ones to use. I am urging you to not always trust what the drug companies are pushing though and consider things closely before you use all the new products. They are not philanthropic entities- they are profitable corporations.

By: Miki Speed

Miki Speed — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:51:52 +0000

Laure68- I have lost one child due to severe brain damage from his DTP vaccines as a baby. Big Pharma did not recognize his particular adverse reactions until threee years after he suffered the damage. I also do not place great trust in alternative. And belive it or no, my subsequent 3 children have been given most of their vaccines- INCLUDING the DTaP and MMR. But they will NOT receive flu vaccines fo r the herd immunity effect, and nor will they be receiving Gardisil until there are more unbiased studies done over the next decade or so.

So Laure- my fears ARE based in the fact that pharmaceutical companies are NOT always forthcoming- FOSAMAX is the most recent- and doctors will push any new drug the reps are pushing, Thank the goddess my Mom has a brain of her won and declined Fosamax at the urging of her drug rep. er. internist.

By: JBoogie

JBoogie — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:22:27 +0000

Watching my precious two month old son get vaccinated was the worst thing I’ve ever seen, and I cried right along with him. But knowing that he is protected for life against crippling diseases, and knowing that my actions were responsible and the best for other mothers’ children–it was worth it. Yeah, there are small, rare risks. But I would be devastated to find out that my inability to jump off the conspiracy horse caused another child–someone else’s baby, someone else’s everything–to get sick. The flu can be fatal, especially in children.

By: Mistress_Scorpio

Mistress_Scorpio — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:07:40 +0000

I’m glad my kid goes to a daycare that requires all the kids to be vax’d.

By: Laure68

Laure68 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:08:45 +0000

This really was a great study. It is rare to be able to study such isolated groups.

Miki Speed – all the things you are scared of have no basis in fact or science. It drives me crazy when people use terms like “Big Pharma”. Yes, there are been some isolated incidents of bad behavior, but because of regulation the great majority of drugs have much higher benefit than risk. Even the bad drugs, like Vioxx, had a great benefit for the majority of the population. What you really need to be worried about is alternative medicine, which has little to no regulation, so you have no idea what you are taking. The reason we know more about the issues with real drugs is because of regulation. Most alternative medicine could not even make it to the point where they would be able to start a clinical trial.