Woman Claims She was Disabled by Flu Shot Reaction

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: ScottyB
The flu isn't AIDS or Polio or Small Pox. A flu vaccination is unnecessary for most people. Get over it.

Being sick unnecessarily is all the reason I need to get flu shots. I'm not willing to lose personal or work time being sick if it can be easily avoided.
 

Number1

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Originally posted by: Jaskalas
Originally posted by: ScottyB
The flu isn't AIDS or Polio or Small Pox. A flu vaccination is unnecessary for most people. Get over it.

Gotta love the media coverage of the flu. Makes me sick.

Is there a vaccine for that?
 

Skitzer

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Originally posted by: ScottyB
The flu isn't AIDS or Polio or Small Pox. A flu vaccination is unnecessary for most people. Get over it.

Agree .... it should be a voluntary thing. If you don't want it you shouldn't be forced to get it.
 
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Originally posted by: SirStev0
Could you please update the OP? There have been many updates in this story, the most significant being Neurologists discrediting her claim that it was "caused" or "triggered" by immunization.

Could we get a link to that? I have some friends on Facebook who would love to discredit doctors who have looked at her case, and work in the field of neurology. But, would be fun for me to watch them go "LIES!!!! AUTISM SYMPATHIZER!!!!"
 

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Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Oh yay! Another moron confusing correlation for causation! :roll:

I know someone who contracted polio from vaccine. So, there is a fucking risk, fuckhead.
You are full of crap.

The Americas have been declared polio free since 1994. The last confirmed case was recorded in 1991.

If what you say is true then I am sure your friend's name would be very easy to find in some medical journals as well.
 

brandonbull

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Originally posted by: ScottyB
The flu isn't AIDS or Polio or Small Pox. A flu vaccination is unnecessary for most people. Get over it.

I thought flu shots were pretty much ineffective because they are a guess of the most common strain of flu and they reduce the effect not make you immune.
 

surfsatwerk

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Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
The title of my thread was EXACTLY as the article's. You going to edit that too?

I wouldn't rely on that hack piece of garbage. I could cough up an article entitle "You Get AIDS From Public Toilets" but it doesn't make it true.