Problem with swine flu vaccine

[meggers49]

I remember the LAST time they tried to push a swine flu vaccine out. I have been warning people not to take it, because they're moving too quickly to develope it. I was right.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206807/Swine-flu-jab-link-killer-nerve-disease-Leaked-letter-reveals-concern-neurologists-25-deaths-America.html

you're better off wearing a mask, good hand washing and you can take elderberry if you want (some people don't believe in this... your choice).

I don't trust this vaccine.

[psyko kat]

when I was 9 or 10, my dad and I would go out in the fields and pick elderberries/ he'd make wine, and my mom would make pies from them.

[angelicmadrigal]

Or you know you can go without one. I go without a flue vaccine every year. But when you have autoimmune disorders and your immune system is hyperactive you don't really need vaccinated against the flu.

[Samm]

They have spend more time developing this specific vaccine than usual due to the timing of the outbreak last winter. Usually they are a day late and a dollar short and have to rush vaccines through without adequate clinical study. To my recollection, this is the first time that trials for a virus-specific flu vaccine are going on in August, well before the "normal" flu season. Yes, the seasonal flu vaccines are developed over a longer period, but those are "best guess" vaccines; not aimed at the specific virus as this one is.

My big question is that they have put people over 60 at the bottom of the priority list to get vaccinated because we supposedly have some immunity from the last big swine flu outbreak in 76. Well, what if we were never exposed? How are we supposed to know whether we had swine flu before? And if we did have immunity... what would occur if they give us the vaccine? Will it cause a severe reaction?

Personally I think this whole swine flu thing is an exaggeration... possibly even a diversion. There are typically 20,000 deaths in the US each year from the seasonal flu. The swine flu does not appear to be anymore virulent than that... maybe even less so.