H1N1 Swine Flu Facts What Are Your Thoughts Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate?

H1N1-Swine Flu Facts
What Are Your Thoughts Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate?

The influenza A virus subtype H1N1, also known as A(H1N1) or the swine flu, is a subtype of influenza virus A and the most common cause of influenza (flu) in humans. Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans, including the strain(s) responsible for the 1918 flu pandemic which killed 50-100 million people worldwide.

This new virus was first detected in people in the United States in April 2009. This virus is spreading from person-to-person worldwide, probably in much the same way that regular seasonal influenza viruses spread.

Here is some information on vaccination. What are Your Thoughts?

Vaccines have little or no effect on preventing or minimizing the flu.

The science by our own CDC (Center of Disease Control) shows that flu vaccines are somewhere between 0-14% effective. Research in Israel shows they are 1% effective with a general lowering of the immune system. In general, the most thorough analysis on all the flu vaccine data was reported in the British Medical Journal article entitled Influenza Vaccination:

Policy Versus Evidence, which gives evidence from a systematic review based on a met analysis of all the research showing that, “inactivated vaccines have little or no effect on the effects measured.”

The paper states most studies are of poor methodological quality and little comparative evidence exists on the safety of these vaccines. It shows that in children under 2 years, inactivated vaccines had the same field efficacy as placebo.

Similar results were found in an article from The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2 (2008), titled, Vaccines for Preventing Influenza in Healthy Children where review of 51 studies involving more than 294,000 children, found there was “no evidence that injecting children 6-24 months of age with a flu shot was any more effective than placebo.” In children over 2 yrs, it was effective 33% of the time in preventing the flu.

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