Posted on 11/25/2015 8:37:16 AM PST by catnipman
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces that it has approved Fluad, the first seasonal influenza vaccine containing an adjuvant.
Fluad, which is manufactured using an egg-based process, is formulated with the adjuvant MF59, an oil-in-water emulsion of squalene oil.
The study showed that Fluad induced antibody levels that were comparable to the levels induced by Agriflu [i.e., no better.]
Fluad was approved using the accelerated approval regulatory pathway, which allows the FDA to approve products for serious or life-threatening diseases based on evidence that the product has an effect on an outcome that is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit
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No vaccine is of any value when the average lifespan is 40 years due to lack of clean water and sanitation. This is a proven FACT, not a medical OPINION.
Medicine is an art based on opinions and consensus, it is not a science.
Immunizations can be a very good thing. Immunizations in the hands of eugenist social engineer control freaks who have openly claimed their desire to rid the planet of a huge percentage of us, like I said, I’ll pass.
Back at you. Stop with the hysterical, fear mongering yourself.
The accusations you are making is merely bullying someone into agreeing with your position. No one is *anti-science* and *anti-western* just because they don’t agree with you.
Your proof is what exactly? If you actually read further down the thread you would see that A) the flu vaccines are at best 20% effective. B) Many conservatives on the forum have had adverse reactions to the vaccine.
And you’d present your pseudo-intellectual stance much better of you spelled *flu* correctly.
Please. Repeating nonsense that you read on anti-vax websites is not the equivalent of reading the medical literature to find out what the research actually shows.
Even if it were true that mercury poisoning and autism have identical symptoms, that would be meaningless. If similarity of symptoms meant that the cause and the treatment were equally similar, there would not be need for medical research, and the practice of medicine would be no more complicated than appliance repair.
When thimerosal (aka thiomersal) is used as an antimicrobial agent in medicines, the mercury is chemically different than elemental mercury and thus is not toxic in the same fashion. Furthermore, the thiomersal is used at trace levels that are far below the maximum safe daily limit of mercury as determined by the FDA. A tuna fish sandwich contains more mercury. You cannot compare the toxicity of compounds that contain the same elements; the most toxic compounds known to exist contain carbon, yet people consume carbon compounds in bulk every day without any worries whatsoever about toxicity.
If you want to make a case that vaccines cause the genetic condition of autism, you need to review the medical literature (searchable database found here: www.pubmed.org) and present the actual evidence. Merely repeating what you found on anti-vax websites doesn’t cut it. You can also fact-check anything you read on an anti-vax site by looking up the claims for yourself on PubMed and seeing what the original research publications really say (as opposed to what anti-vax websites claim they say).
Those who use fear to convince parents not to protect their children from deadly disease will use any lie to achieve the desired outcome. They do not care about children—if anything, many of them are motivated by the firm belief that saving more children from dying of deadly diseases contributes to overpopulation. The opposite is actually true: when children are immunized and thus more likely than not to grow to adulthood, parents do not feel the need to have large numbers of children in order to guarantee their families’ futures. Most anti-vaxxers are not so idealistic—they want money but have nothing of value to sell, so they work to convince parents to forego the shots and instead buy their expensive but worthless “supplements” and books.
Let's put it this way: every medical advance has an effect on lifespan. Sanitation helped to prevent the spread of diseases like cholera and giardiasis. Vaccines, for the most part, help to prevent the spread of highly communicable viral diseases. Ensuring food safety (through proper cooking and preservation) helps to prevent potentially lethal food poisoning. Etc. Each of these measures decreases the incidence of infectious disease, and every decrease in infectious disease results in longer average lifespan.
IIRC, as little as a decade ago, infectious disease was still responsible for over half of deaths worldwide. Even now, it is one of the top ten killers.
Medicine is an art based on opinions and consensus, it is not a science.
Really? Then why does the US government spend billions of dollars on medical research every year?
Where the "art" comes into the practice of medicine is in the interpretation of the evidence. The physician uses scientific measures and experience to make the best determination of what is wrong (and can be mistaken, since there are many many things that can go wrong with the human body, and tracking down what they are can be very challenging).
My new doctor at the local Banner clinic is getting on my last nerve about the flu shot. At every visit he asks if I’ve gotten it yet, and every time I answer that I’ll pass, and then we go through a discussion about why not. Since I’m a relatively healthy 62-year-old woman who has never had the flu, no longer has a job, and goes to school online, I really don’t think I’m at much risk. He must be getting a kickback is all I can think, lol.
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