[neverdem]

Synthetic Generation of Influenza Vaccine Viruses for Rapid Response to Pandemics

[Trailerpark Badass]

LOL, uh, no...

[Vaquero]

Keep your poison. Flu vaccine in 1999 gave me GB.
Get the flu. Let your immune system fight it.

[Myrddin]

Search "venter" and "synthia" terms. Some claim that Venter's Synthia was injected into the BP oil well to convert oil to methane to provide pressure for pumping. The bad news it that it is still working and pushing lots of methane under the Gulf Coast. A brilliant move like that doesn't deserve a shot at wiping out humanity directly with a hack flu vaccine.

[exDemMom]

Oh, my goodness. It seems this particular article you posted brought the nuts out of the woodwork.

Rather than try to answer each one separately, I will list the responses here (in no particular order):

1) Guillain-Barré syndrome is caused by influenza. The chance of getting GB from influenza is far higher than the chance of getting it from a vaccine, for a couple of reasons. a—The flu shot is a dead virus that cannot cause infection. b—Traditional flu vaccines are made using a specific vaccine virus as a backbone; these vaccine viruses have been used for decades and have an excellent safety profile. Keep in mind that a flu vaccine has the same proteins in it as the flu virus that makes you sick, but in far lower quantities. It is those flu proteins that cause GB, but we don’t know how yet.

2) Although some “natural” compounds have demonstrable anti-viral activity, to my knowledge, garlic, magnesium, zinc, etc., have no effect on the influenza virus.

3) You can avoid influenza (maybe) if you never leave your house. Your best bet is to practice good sanitation—wash hands frequently, use the little hand sanitizers frequently, avoid touching your face, stay away from people with respiratory symptoms, and get vaccinated.

4) Yes, vaccines are tested. There isn’t a single vaccine allowed to be sold without FDA approval, which is only granted after clinical trials have demonstrated their safety. You can check the status of clinical studies yourself over at www.clinicaltrials.gov.

5) No synthetically made organisms were injected into oil wells or anywhere else. To do such a thing without extensive safety and environmental studies would be a horrible breach of scientific ethics.

6) Narcolepsy cases were noticed after the vaccination of children with an adjuvanted H1N1(pdm)2009 vaccine. I’ve seen the data; I’m not convinced. Studies are still on-going into this putative link. It seems to me that the relationship between the narcolepsy and the vaccine is more correlative than causative.