Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Wonderful Pork
Of course getting a disease/ailment like this scares me, however Doctors are saying she did NOT get it from the Flu vaccine.
Woman claiming she acquired dystonia from a flu shot may have it all in her head
On the October 16, 2009, Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor", Dr. Leigh Vinocur from the University of Maryland Medical System offered an alternative cause to Ms. Jennings' syndrome. Dr. Vinocur stated that there have been no cases of dystonia associated with the flu vaccine and that neurology experts at the University of Maryland were using Ms. Jennings' case to teach neurology residents about psychogenic dystonia.
Another important detail in Ms. Jennings' story is that she acquired flu from the flu vaccine. This is a scientific impossiblity. The flu virus in the injected vaccine is dead, inactive. In the solution being injected, the virus has no cells in which to live and reproduce. Viruses are, by definition, obligate intracellular parasites. They need cells to live, grow, and reproduce. There has been no recorded case of acquired flu from the flu shot vaccine. Likewise, if true, Ms. Jennings would be the first case of dystonia as a result of the flu vaccine. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration did not find anything wrong or different about the lot of vaccine used.
Now, I'm not saying you can't get the flu after receiving the flu shot. Nor am I saying this girl doesn't have dystonia. Just that there is no causal link.
It's not real? It's all in her head? OK.... I'm sure she'll be glad to hear that diagnosis so she can stop thinking about it and have her symptoms disappear. :Q
Doesn't scare me of vaccines one bit. I don't get the seasonal flu vaccines, because it's not a serious infection I'd be afraid to get. I'd rather save vaccines for the far more serious, often life threatening infectious agents. Meningitis and Hep B were my most recent vaccinations, along with Tetanus... I think.
But sorry, while getting something serious from a vaccine is scary, it's expected in rare odds. It WILL happen that something will be the result of a vaccine in a very small number of cases of our entire population, both the U.S. specific and world wide. It's the practice of creating a concoction of material to be injected into your body and play around with your immune system that serves as the risk. People need to be far more mindful of this fact... getting any vaccine carries its risks. Maybe less than 200 people in the entirety of the U.S. will develop some odd disorder, over a period of 10-20 years of the availability of a vaccine. Just because it is insanely rare, does not mean a vaccine is perfectly safe. All vaccines have the very real, but very rare risks attached to them. That's the price we pay for developing injections that can prevent normal infections in large numbers. You get a shot, you're gambling you won't win the lottery in this case. In this case, it's a lottery full of suck.
That won't prevent me from getting seriously important vaccinations, especially if they are vaccinations for something we are trying to create herd immunity for and establish our country as free of that infection. I'll eventually get the smallpox vaccine from the Army. It has risks, but it's pretty important.
But for things like the flu? Hell no I'm not messing with my immune system for something like that. I don't enjoy being sick for a week, but I'd rather not get some stupid vaccine for it. Yes, the vaccine creates the same natural immunity as would actually getting the infection, all without the immune response to infection. But, I like effective nature. And I figure I'm pretty hardheaded about life being about the survival of the most worthy for our species, I might as well put myself right in line with that and gamble that my body will prove itself worthy for some 80 or 90 healthy years, but that bears the risk that something will bring me down at the young age of 22 as well. That's a better gamble in my mind. More enjoyable too.
Knowing that I'm passing on a successful batch of genetics to future children is great. Just need this damn genetic experiment on my color vision problems and I'll be ecstatic.
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