Will you vaccinate yourself and/or your family?

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Originally Posted by ZDL

Wife's ob is pushing seasonal and h1n1 shot on my pregnant wife....... Not sure yet.

Whatever you decide, please make sure it is a well informed decision based on facts from credible sources. And certainly continue to consult with the OB. These aren't trivial decisions by any means.

Originally Posted by YVK

While many don't realize this, taking blood pressure pills or cholesterol pills are two most common examples of taking something for something one doesn't have. It is not much different in concept than vaccine, and millions of people do it. It is called preventative medicine.




This is nonsense. We report cases confirmed by testing, not on a basis of flu-like symptoms. This is a transparent data, and epidemics definition wouldn't hold water unless it is proven by tests. So far, there has been about one thousand confirmed cases in Utah alone, and it is not even a peak of flu season, and we don't even test everybody.

YVK, so to your thinking would it be fair to say there is a bias towards underreporting then? Not everyone that gets sick even goes to the doc, much less gets tested.

e-guns, my bad sorry 11 MONTH old.

Originally Posted by ZDL

Wife's ob is pushing seasonal and h1n1 shot on my pregnant wife....... Not sure yet.

I wouldn't think too hard on that one - H1N1 is a killer for otherwise healthy pregnant women.

Originally Posted by BAC

Has there not been deaths directly tied to the vaccinations for H1N1?


-B

I don't know - have there been any? Do they exceed the rate of deaths for vaccinations in general? What is the rate of these deaths compared to the mortality for the disease itself?

Originally Posted by ZDL

Wife's ob is pushing seasonal and h1n1 shot on my pregnant wife....... Not sure yet.

If somehow it were up to me, I would not allow a pregnant woman to get the shot. You know I am no doctor, but considering everything historical related to vaccinations, I'd pass.

Too many questions, too few answers. And to me the risk would outweigh the benefit. Except for the Polio vaccine, I say if it's not broken, don't fix it.

Congratulations on the baby. Hope all goes well my friend.

"It's been made the same way for 20 years"...Arent we just discovering that acetamitophin can cause liver damage after 60 years on the market?

We're not exaclty talking about polio.I suppose some more condescending flogging might change my mind on the risk/reward here(1000 deaths since Jan?).

I'm personally seeing little of either...Which tends to make me lean away from annual injections(which may or may not offer some protection from the current form of the virus).

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125648831388306547.html

"The FDA issued a so-called emergency use authorization late Friday that allows doctors to use peramivir, which is delivered intravenously, in certain hospitalized adult and pediatric patients with confirmed or suspected H1N1 influenza."

Originally Posted by Jerm

...Arent we just discovering that acetamitophin can cause liver damage after 60 years on the market?.

This is NOT anything new, the recent scare is just to try and further protect stupid people from themselves. This is also an apples to oranges comparison that I don't think is relevant to this thread.

I'm active duty so I don't have a choice but to get vaccinated. I guess I could just get the hook up.