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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends flu shots for everyone over 6 months old. Yet relatively few people get them.
Last year, only 43 percent of Americans got a flu shot and that was a record.
The reason, experts say, is a host of myths about what the flu is and how dangerous it can be. Among those:
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/8286309-423/dangerous-myths-surround-flu-shots-experts.html
Last year, only 43 percent of Americans got a flu shot and that was a record.
The reason, experts say, is a host of myths about what the flu is and how dangerous it can be. Among those:
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/8286309-423/dangerous-myths-surround-flu-shots-experts.html
Speculate if you want but in this case I will take the advice of my Dr.s, Health Canada and the Center for Disease Control.
I wanna get a flu shot.. I just keep forgetting.. Oops
here... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/park_ridge_niles/ct-tl-dr-oz-flu-shots-20131031,0,5808359.story
I got my flu shot this year but not last year. We nearly lost a family member to the flu last season.
I never have gotten The Flu,. but since I began getting The Flu Vaccine (only for about the last 5 yrs) I just never get sick at all (knock on wood).
If I am getting a sore throat, I buy some echinacea root at the herb store, and chew on that.
I do not know the Dr Oz history on this particular issue but I have known that he has changed his opinion on some other hot button other issues. Having an open mind and being able to admit that one was wrong and new evidence has created a change of heart is not waffling IMHO.
Having said that, I personally also believe that anyone who gets their advice solely from a TV PERSONALITY which is all Dr oz is, to me, is a fool! And he DOES say one thing one day and another thing the next about many supplements, etc. AND...he is WAY WAY WAY too focused on WEIGHT instead of health!
He is on TV and goes for RATINGS - with DUMB enormous demonstrations geared for kindergarten level. Not a trusted source, IMO. At best he's a heart surgeon, not a nutritionist!
But we do share similar views of the good DR. :)
LOL @ Kramer
http://www.naturalnews.com/043040_flu_shots_mercury_propaganda.html
'Mercury is known to cause serious harm'
In 2011, the Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs published details of a Brazilian study that confirmed what earlier studies had shown:
Yet another peer-reviewed, scientific study proving the connection between the mercury in medicine and human illnesses has just been released. The latest study is the sixth one published in recent months. This report specifically examines the harm inflicted on developing fetuses and children by Thimerosal, a mercury-based compound routinely used as a preservative in flu shots.
The study's author, Dr. Jose Dorea, reviewed the published science which demonstrates that infant exposure to the amount of thimerosal in vaccines is toxic to human brain cells.
"Mercury is known to cause serious harm, especially to fetuses and children because of their smaller size," said Rev. Lisa Sykes, President of CoMeD and mother of a mercury-poisoned child. "Why remove Thimerosal from pediatric vaccines only to inject it into pregnant women and children with recommended flu shots? They removed Thimerosal from other vaccines, so it should also be removed from flu shots.