Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination Alert

[KayGee]

Im starting to worry about this now, i have 2 young cousins with it and 4 friends.I keep having scares but i think im ok.. for now at least.

[YGNB]

Lol at comparing the vaccine to ThalidomideWhen there's a health scare you gotta love how every joe bloggs becomes a medical expert

[Taurus]

[Black Casper]

Lol at comparing the vaccine to ThalidomideWhen there's a health scare you gotta love how every joe bloggs becomes a medical expert

exactly,from watching the news reports...quite a few "medical experts" have cast their opinion about the increase of swine flu cases

[Jefferson]

this whole swine flue saga is a bit iffy though still.how they come up with the vaccine so quick?

aint read the whole topic but in the 1st week of this on the media ages ago. they said it would be like 2/3/4months time. stillit wont be available til august aparentlythe worlds going on iffy bladsomething bigs going dowwwwwwwwwwwn.ww3

[Da Luv Doc]

Don't believe the media. Nhs are not taking blood samples or gna stop soon, that would have confirmed if people has swine flu. So people could have the normal flu and could die from that but it would be taken for swine flu. Remember, there's the normal flu going round aswell. Lol @ this all though.

[Speculate]

the climax of political misdemeanor and public outcry turned action is in sight

[Thun]

Lol at comparing the vaccine to ThalidomideWhen there's a health scare you gotta love how every joe bloggs becomes a medical expert

exactly,from watching the news reports...quite a few "medical experts" have cast their opinion about the increase of swine flu cases

Yeah best to also get information from medical experts on the net rather then just medical experts on TV creating fearSo many good sources of information on the net from leading experts warning people of the dangers of taking the vaccine

[Da Luv Doc]

Thun, allow saying from the net to, as it is......FROM THE NET.Basically, speak to your doctor, a family doctor etc etc, not anyone from tv or net.

[Platinum50]

I dont even think he will have one, seems bare shook of what they might perscribe him

[YGNB]

Lol at comparing the vaccine to ThalidomideWhen there's a health scare you gotta love how every joe bloggs becomes a medical expert

exactly,from watching the news reports...quite a few "medical experts" have cast their opinion about the increase of swine flu cases

Yeah best to also get information from medical experts on the net rather then just medical experts on TV creating fearSo many good sources of information on the net from leading experts warning people of the dangers of taking the vaccine

To be honest I just meant the general public.Are there potential dangers taking this vaccine? Yes probably.But you have to remember that these companies make seasonal flu vaccines year after year. This is really no different - find the strain, make the vaccine.

[Guest Cipher]

LOLOLOL

[Thun]

Thun, allow saying from the net to, as it is......FROM THE NET.Basically, speak to your doctor, a family doctor etc etc, not anyone from tv or net.

Your family doctor will advise you to take it more then likelyDo your own research and even take that to you doctor with your concerns

[Beavis]

How is this vaccination mandatory? What will happen when i tell them to f*ck off?

[Thun]

How is this vaccination mandatory? What will happen when i tell them to f*ck off?

This is what I would like to knowProbably be restricted to travelling abroad and asked at work or college for some sort of certificate of the vaccination

[Maxxx]

should of kept the people in mexico with it and made sure they were cleared before leaving the country.lol @ thinking this wasnt man made

[Grafter]

How is this vaccination mandatory? What will happen when i tell them to f*ck off?

This is what I would like to knowProbably be restricted to travelling abroad and asked at work or college for some sort of certificate of the vaccination

this is what i wont be able to handle

[Seymour Cake]

i am just starting to recover from the swine flu. Its like hell when it is at its peak. I was completely down and out. Would not recommend.

[Grafter]

bery interesting article from a doctor on timesonline:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/c...icle6722428.eceComment: Mass flu vaccination would be madnessThe current threat of swine flu doesn’t justify a gamble on a vaccine that has not been fully testedRichard Halvorsen

A mass vaccination programme moves ever closer. Orders have been placed; priority groups identified. There will be enough swine flu vaccine to inoculate the entire population, starting with NHS staff, in an attempt to halt the spread of the disease and save lives. Is all this really necessary? To start with, swine flu is far milder than we first feared, so the case for vaccinating millions of healthy adults against a disease that is no more unpleasant than a bad cold is questionable. There is a stronger argument for vaccinating those at greater risk, such as those with lung, heart or kidney disease, those with suppressed immune systems (such as those on cancer treatment), pregnant women and children under 5 — but only if the vaccine works and is safe. But there are serious doubts about this. Rushing the vaccine on to the market means we will have no idea how effective it is, although we do have a body of research on the effectiveness of flu vaccines in general, which gives some idea of what we might expect from the swine flu vaccine. Provided that we have matched the vaccine well with the virus, it is likely to be up to 80 per cent effective in healthy adults, the group at least risk from the virus. A number of trials have looked at the effect of flu vaccination on children’s asthma and have failed to demonstrate any benefit; one trial even suggested that the vaccine made asthma worse. There is no good evidence that the vaccine helps those with chronic health problems or pregnant women. However, we do know that the immunisation offers no more than a modest benefit in the elderly; indeed, the effectiveness of the vaccine is known to decrease sharply after 70 years of age. BACKGROUNDNHS rushes in swine flu call centre Swine flu: autumn school closures 'too disruptive' 'Swine flu victim' girl died from septic shock Swine flu hits Muslim pilgrimage Related LinksFirst human trials of swine flu vaccine The first vaccines are expected to arrive in the UK by the end of next month. It will be some weeks later before they have gone through the minimal safety testing necessary to consider offering them to the general population. Realistically, it is unlikely that sufficient doses will arrive to vaccinate substantial numbers until the end of the year. Even putting aside the daunting logistical problems of administering millions — or even tens of millions — of vaccines over a short period of time (everyone needs two doses), it is quite possible that most of the population will have come across the virus by then and developed natural immunity (always stronger and longer-lasting than vaccine-derived immunity) and so be in no need of the vaccine. Perhaps the biggest concern is the speed at which the vaccine is being rushed out. Research for my book, The Truth about Vaccines, taught me how vaccines are increasingly being released on to the market with little testing of either safety or effectiveness, against infections that are rarely the threat that the Department of Health or pharmaceutical companies (who are finding the vaccine business an increasingly lucrative market) claim. To be properly tested for safety a vaccine needs to be given to tens of thousands of people and followed up for several months to detect uncommon but serious side-effects. This is clearly not going to happen with the swine flu vaccine, which is being fast-tracked at unprecedented speed. The little safety testing that does occur is likely to be in healthy people, and not those with health problems who are in greatest need of the vaccine, but probably also at greatest risk from side-effects. We have experience of mass vaccination against swine flu from which lessons should be learnt. In America in 1976 a vaccine was offered to the whole population to prevent the spread of an epidemic of swine flu. Millions were rapidly immunised, but the vaccination campaign was stopped after a rise in cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) among recipients of the vaccine. GBS is an autoimmune disorder that causes paralysis of the arms or legs or, rarely, the whole body; the sufferer usually makes a complete recovery, but some suffer permanent paralysis and a few die. Research later estimated that there was one case of GBS caused by every 100,000 swine flu vaccines given. If the current vaccine caused a similar rate of cases, then we could expect hundreds of people to get GBS, some of whom will suffer permanent paralysis or die. Vaccinating a large proportion of the UK population with an “experimental” swine flu vaccine will be a huge gamble. It may save lives and, more likely, prevent healthy adults from having to take a few days off work. It may also cause serious side-effects and deaths. It is a gamble that the current threat of the virus does not justify. There is a case for offering the vaccine to those at risk, but not without informing them of the uncertainty over the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness. To vaccinate the whole population would be a huge and foolhardy experiment for which there is currently no scientific rationale. Dr Richard Halvorsen is a Central London GP and medical director of BabyJabs, a children’s immunisation service. His book The Truth about Vaccines is published on August 7

[Thun]

Vaccinating a large proportion of the UK population with an “experimental” swine flu vaccine will be a huge gamble. It may save lives and, more likely, prevent healthy adults from having to take a few days off work. It may also cause serious side-effects and deaths. It is a gamble that the current threat of the virus does not justify.

This sums it upExcellent article

[JDC]

get thisa girl who works in my office has got swine flushe lives with another woman who works in the same office (she lives with her son)i SWEAR i heard on the news that if somebody has it all people in the same household should STAY AWAY from work etc?!!?!?should i whistle blow on this bitch? (she's a c*nt btw)

[Grafter]

no snitchinjus whisper it to someone else, who u kno is a taddle tale

[JDC]

22 people in the office, somebody is bound to tell you'd think..but don't seem to be the case.

[Meticulous]

jus whisper it to someone else, who u kno is a taddle tale

smh

[Grafter]

you've probably all got it now anyway*no doom