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The flu vaccine is only 10 percent effective this year. Blame eggs.
Vox ^ | February 2, 2018

Posted on 02/11/2018 10:20:00 AM PST by SMGFan

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1 posted on 02/11/2018 10:20:00 AM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

But the drug companies are making more than ever.


2 posted on 02/11/2018 10:22:07 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: windcliff

Perhaps it would pay to forgo the lab for a bit.


3 posted on 02/11/2018 10:22:37 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Sacajaweau

Be sure to get your flu shot. You won’t be able to live without your flu shot. Before flu shots mankind was on the very edge of extinction. Flu may kill you!

Sarcasm? Decide for yourself. The way things are today I don’t see how I’ve managed to survive this far let alone childhood. There is no need to be stupid about your health but one is led to believe that death is lurking around every corner and there is a medicine to just barely keep it away.


4 posted on 02/11/2018 10:29:32 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: SMGFan

Did you know Bill Gates doesn’t allow his kids to be vaccinated for the flu?


5 posted on 02/11/2018 10:30:35 AM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: SMGFan

I’m sure the deep and subtle DNA structure of the eggs has been altered by -—

—wait for it—

Global Warming!!

You SUV is killing children and grandmas for that reason!!

Oh, the Humanity...


6 posted on 02/11/2018 10:31:09 AM PST by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: SMGFan

I’ll take any edge I can get. At my age and with physical lung damage, if the shot can minimize a virus i’ll take it. I did get a respiratory virus, did not test as the flu after 2 weeks. Was a bad one, but managed to shake it after 3 weeks. If the ineffective flu shot only worked partway, that’s fine.


7 posted on 02/11/2018 10:36:05 AM PST by redcatcherb412 (Emerged intact.)
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To: redcatcherb412

There’s also an influenza shot which can be taken 20 days after the common flu shot. Maybe check into it.


8 posted on 02/11/2018 10:40:57 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: SMGFan

What a Yolk.


9 posted on 02/11/2018 10:42:56 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.cwom/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M5)
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the flu vaccine was only 10 percent effective against H3N2

Nice con job they got going.

10 posted on 02/11/2018 10:51:25 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SMGFan

I’ve read recently that 80% of flu victims this season aren’t infected with a flu virus at all but a virus that causes the same symptoms. The researchers suspect there are a number of viruses causing the widespread illness that mimics the flu. Hopefully we’ll find out the truth after the flu season winds down.


11 posted on 02/11/2018 10:52:29 AM PST by drypowder
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To: SMGFan

The real reason it sucks is that its government funded.


12 posted on 02/11/2018 10:53:32 AM PST by Bayard
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“But lately, researchers have found that there are problems with the egg-based approach that specifically relate to H3N2.

“In the process of adapting virus to grow in eggs, that seems to introduce further changes to the [H3N2] virus, which may impair the effectiveness of the vaccine,” Belongia said. In other words, while growing the flu virus for vaccines, H3N2 mutates to adapt to the eggs, which seems to result in a vaccine mismatch.”

H3N2 could be a Captain Trips wannabe. Awesome!


13 posted on 02/11/2018 11:01:45 AM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: Sequoyah101

Another circumstance where the wrong preventative measure was promoted and applied. About as much “protection”, as
stringing a barbed=wire fence along our southern border between the US and Mexico.

In some places, the “Wall” is just no more than a barbed-wire fence.

Same with this vaccine, which “protects” the recipients but does not address the real problem.


14 posted on 02/11/2018 11:03:45 AM PST by alloysteel (Coming in dead-stick, high, hot and blind, with the glide angle of a brick. What an entrance.....)
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To: SMGFan

1. I don’t get flue shots. Not since being in the army late 80’s early 90’s. 2. I don’t get the flue. Ar least since the early 90’s. 3. Every year I hear a story about how the got the vaccine wrong. 4. Drug companies make billions off flue vaccine. 5. I am tired of being swindled.


15 posted on 02/11/2018 11:06:34 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Sequoyah101

“Before flu shots mankind was on the very edge of extinction. Flu may kill you!”

My Grandmother used to tell us about the 1918 epidemic. Over 500,000 in the U.S. died.


16 posted on 02/11/2018 11:11:18 AM PST by TexasGator (Z)
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To: Lopeover

> Did you know Bill Gates doesn’t allow his kids to be vaccinated for the flu?

It figures. Gates drinks the Koolaid the anti-vax morons offer up.


17 posted on 02/11/2018 11:11:37 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code amd only practiced by warriors.)
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To: Sequoyah101

I’m just afraid that in the next hundred years we’re all going to die and our children will be left all alone.


18 posted on 02/11/2018 11:15:27 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: SMGFan

What worse is that someone posted a study on one of threads here that stated that people who get the flu shot are emitting the flu virus from their breath. So they are infecting others.
It was something like a 360% increase in flu virus particles coming from their breath. Pretty creepy.


19 posted on 02/11/2018 11:19:17 AM PST by Revel
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To: Sequoyah101

Never had one. Never get the flu. My wife is a nurse, she says it’s only effective against 20% of the strains at best.


20 posted on 02/11/2018 11:25:07 AM PST by nobamanomore
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