Seasonal Flu Shot May INCREASE H1N1 Risk
September 25th, 2009Via: CBC News:
Preliminary research suggests the seasonal flu shot may put people at greater risk for getting swine flu, CBC News has learned.
“This is some evidence that has been floated. It hasn’t been validated yet, it’s very preliminary,” cautioned Dr. Don Low, microbiologist-in-chief at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.
“This is obviously important data to help guide policy decisions. How can we best protect people against influenza?”
It’s important to validate the information, which has not been peer reviewed, to make sure it’s not just a fluke, and that the observation is confirmed elsewhere such as in the Southern Hemisphere, which just completed its seasonal flu season, or in the U.S. and UK.
Four Canadian studies involved about 2,000 people, health officials told CBC News. Researchers found people who had received the seasonal flu vaccine in the past were more likely to get sick with the H1N1 virus.
Anyone of even remotely reasonable health who’d risk the known side-effects of flu vaccination over actually letting your body’s intelligence create immunity to this extremely mild flu bug is, well, not destined for evolutionary greatness, that’s for sure.
Also, what about the countless people who evidently have already had the H1N1 flu virus, but just didn’t know it? They’ll be gambling for nothing…
Let’s see if this story has any legs among the American MSM. I’d be surprised if it did. I was just at the eye doctor, and as I browsed the very thin copy of US News and World Report there, I couldn’t help notice that there were six 2-full-page ads (full page happy-ad on this side, full page explaining the “details” of the drug on the other) for big pharma products.
@lagavulin: “not destined for evolutionary greatness, that’s for sure” — love it!