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My purpose is to give you the behind the story facts.
I'm not vehemently pro or anti vaccines. For the record, I've never gotten an annual flu shot and don't intend to. However, in recent
years I have been vaccinated against both Hepatitis B and Hepatitis
A.
The most important misconception that's all too prevalent -- and the pro-vaccine media barrage promotes it -- is that vaccines "protect"
you.
Too many people falsely believe that the flu shot acts as a "pre" antibiotic that someone kills the flu virus before they're even infected with
it.
That'd be wrong even if flu viruses could be killed by antibiotics. Which they can't.
Vaccines are teachers.
Think of your immune system as an army protecting your body from invasions. Your army contains
hundreds of millions of weapons (called antibodies). Every possible invader can
be killed by one particular antibody.
When you're invaded, though, it takes up to a week for your immune to learn which antibody works against that
particular virus, bacteria or parasite. After that, however, your immune system
works as hard as possible to manufacture much more of that antibody and use it
against the invading infection.
After the invasion is defeated, your army stores the information about the invader and the antibody into a special
biological database (called memory B cells). So if that particular germ infects
you again, your immune system can begin effectively fighting back right
away.
Vaccines are dead or weakened germs that the flu shot dumps upon the shores of your body for your immune system to find. Your immune system
reacts to the threat by trying out antibodies just as though it were a
full-scale invasion. After a time, it learns which antibodies to manufacture to
defeat that particular strain of virus, and stores that information in the
memory B cells.
Therefore, if you're exposed to a live version of that virus during the coming flu season, your immune system can immediately meet the
threat by rolling out the big gun antibodies.
That's what vaccines do -- they train your immune system to defeat a particular virus by giving them a
safe, trial-run invasion. They don't do the actual fighting . . . that's up to
your immune system.
And that's an important point. Because the stronger your immune system is, the better it defends you, vaccine or no
vaccine.
A strong, well-equipped army (that is, a healthy immune system) is better able to fight off an infection than a weak, poorly-equipped army (an
unhealthy immune system).
Flu shots are most recommended for people who have weak immune systems: the very young, the very old, the very sick, HIV+,
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immuno-compromised.
The medical establishment believes that a weak army has more need for the training provided by the flu vaccine than a strong army,
and this makes sense.
No matter your age or health, you should also understand that a strong immune system is better than a weak one, and do all you
can to boost your immune system through:
Getting plenty of sleep
Getting regular moderate exercise
Eating healthy foods
Taking immune system boosting nutritional supplements such as Vitamin C, beta carotene, Vitamin E, zinc and selenium.
The various strains of influenza viruses are monitored around the world by the World Health
Organization (WHO) through the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) and other
participating laboratories. Many hospitals and clinics send in samples from flu
patients.
Every year around February, influenza experts meet and use this information to make their best, informed guess about which three strains of
influenza are most likely to circulate during the coming winter.
They're experts, so they make scientific guesses, but they don't have a crystal ball.
They can and have been wrong.
Vaccine manufacturers then take six to eight months to manufacture vaccines against those three strains of
influenza.
For the upcoming 2007 flu season, the shot contains antigens (inactivated and live, attenuated viruses) for these three influenza strains:
ANew Caledonia201999 (H1N1)-like, AWisconsin672005 (H3N2)-like and
BMalaysia25062004.
What if the strain of influenza that actually circulates this winter is not one of the above?
You are still vulnerable to infection. So even if you get a flu shot, you should not stop practicing good
hygiene. Don't get close to people sneezing or coughing. Wash your hands
often.
Viruses for these vaccines are grown in hen's eggs, so you should not take the flu vaccine if you have a history of severe hypersensitivity to
eggs, such as anaphylaxis.
According to the Center for Disease Control, "Manufacturers might use different compounds to inactivate influenza viruses and
add antibiotics to prevent bacterial contamination."
As with all medical procedures, having a foreign substance injected into your bloodstream involves a
certain degree of risk. The FDA and manufacturers guard against contamination,
but it's been present in vaccines in the past. FluMist, which is inhaled, does
avoid puncturing the skin.
Three people recently died in Isreal following administration of flu shots. It's not yet known that the influenza vaccinations
even caused or contributed to their deaths (they were old and in poor health
anyway -- but those are precisely the people most recommended to get flu shots),
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