[kingattax]

vaccine ping

[LukeL]

This is fear mongering, any medical procedure has side effects and rarely severe morbidity and even mortality. You need to weigh the risks and benefits of any drug or procedure you have done.

[NRA2BFree]

I heard today that two chemicals used in making flu vaccines are formaldehyde and mercury. Both are dangerous to humans. God only knows what else is in them.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I just wonder how much of today’s vaccines are being produced in China. They spend far less than us for quality control, and people have gone paralyzed by some of their neuro-treatment shots, so I’ve heard. Even the best quality standards allows a certain amount of mercury in those things, far more than they would allow in your fillings.

[Vendome]

haven’t looked at the video yet but she sounds like a blonde.

[Vendome]

Fake but real?

[Jim Noble]

The question is, did the flu shot cause this?

No, the question is, is there a neurophysiologic explanation for this, or is it a scam?

[Caesar Soze]

Just for fun, I downloaded the 2008 VAERS dataset and searched it for cases of dystonia. (Dystonia is the diagnosis I've usually seen attached to this case.)

1. First case was post-Gardasil, but eventually tracked to an infection. Possibly occurred during deployment, and the patient didn't get treatment in time.
3. Second case followed a hepatitis vaccination. Diagnosed as Bell's palsy.
4. Third was a consumer report, concerning Pneumovax. Apparently the patient had pneumonia and was on a host of other medications, including valium and botox. He got better within a couple of days of the vaccination.
5. Flu vaccine, yay. This patient was also on antidepressants, so the doctors kept her overnight, decided it was pseudoseizures when she was better in the morning, adjusted her meds, and sent her home.

So, there you go. Given an entire year's worth of raw data, we see there is only one case of dystonia associated with the flu vaccine--and that was probably a psychological problem.

CDC studied flu vaccination coverage in 19 selected states for the 2008-2009 season. That's not an exact match for the VAERS reporting period, but it's close enough for generalizations. CDC found that about a third of people had been vaccinated. Extrapolating from that, we can guess there were maybe 100 million people vaccinated against the flu in the United States per flu season. Of those 100 million, only one--maybe--suffered dystonia. And she got better.

So, I'm not really worried about dystonia as a result of a flu vaccine. Guillain-Barre is a real (albeit very small) danger, this thing probably is not.