Monday, October 27, 2008

It's Time for Your Flu Shot - Or Is It? Part 1

Now is the time of year that many people start talking about getting their yearly flu shot, and we hear of concerned pharmacies and stores offering flu clinics. Doctors recommend it, so it must be safe and beneficial, right?

We tend to think of and treat our doctors as if they were gods, as if they knew everything about how to make us well when we are sick. The sad truth is that most of them were schooled in disease management, not health creation.

The flu shot is another example of how listening to your doctor can harm you!

Here's what's most likely in the flu shot you or someone dear to you will be getting when they dutifully go for their shot:

Thimerosal (which is mercury, for heaven's sake!). There is an established a link between thimerosal presence in vaccines and autism.

Because of this link, New York recently passed a law banning the use of thimerosal in vaccines or flu shots to be given to young children and pregnant women.

But that doesn't mean it's safe for everyone else.

It can also contain anything from aluminum, formaldehyde, dangerous microorganisms, ethyle glycol, and other toxic substances! In addition, the flu vaccine is prepared from the fluids of chicken embryos inoculated with the specific type(s) of influenza virus that supposedly protects against the strains federal health officials believe (maybe they have a crystal ball) will be the most prevalent during the flu season.

In truth, the flu shot actually weakens the immune system in the long run. Nobody knows for sure exactly what negative effects all those poisons will have on the immune system. Some of them are known to interfere with your DNA.

Guillain-Barre syndrome is another danger from flu shots.

Author Tim O'Shea said in "The Sanctity of Human Blood: Vaccination is Not Immunization":
"A vaccine supposedly contains some version of the causative agent, in a weakened form. With influenza, by the time the virus is isolated, cultured for manufacture, and distributed to the population, the virus that is causing the current incidence of influenza has usually changed to a form completely unaffected by the vaccine.

Michael Decker, MD of Aventis, the flu vaccine manufacturer, admits, 'By the time you know what's the right strain, you can't do anything about it.'"

Guillain-Barre syndrome may be one of the dangers of flu shots. This is a disease in which the body damages it's own nerve cells resulting in muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes permanent nerve damage. The syndrome was first associated with the swine flu shots of 1976, but a subsequent study concluded that Guillain-Barre syndrome was one of the possible flu shot risks.

And the list goes on.

Look for more information in Part 2 - more dangers and ways to stay healthy without getting a flu shot.

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