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"There is such a media blitz, especially toward the elderly, to have annual flu shots; yet there is very little evidence that they are effective. In an article entitled The Flu Vaccine Myth, Croft Woodruff presents the case that flu vaccines may actually increase the risk of developing neurological pathologies: ... according to Hugh Fudenberg, md, ... If an individual has had five flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years studied) her chances of getting Alzheimer's Disease is 10 times higher than if she had one, two or no shots." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"For that reason, I recommend that only people with COPD get flu shots. OSELTAMIVIR AND ZELE In the past few years there has been mounting concern over bird flu. Are we all about to succumb to a global bird flu pandemic? Not likely. Bird flu is transmitted from birds to birds, not birds to people. Only in extremely rare instances have humans become infected with the bird flu, and there is no reason to believe that that will change. Should we take drugs to prevent getting the bird flu? No." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Recently the CDC recommended lowering the age for yearly flu shots from age sixty-five to fifty-five and some pediatricians are now recommending flu shots for small children. All of these vaccines contain the mercury-containing thimerosal preservative, and small children and elderly people are the two most vulnerable age groups to mercury toxicity! It is not a good idea to keep mercury thermometers around the house, as accidental breakage can wreak havoc. It may be hard to believe that such a small volume of mercury can cause a major catastrophe, but it absolutely can." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"The belief that vaccinations, like flu shots, have eliminated death from infectious disease in the twentieth century is widespread. In fact, much of the reduction in death from infectious disease is due to public-health measures, including improved nutrition and sanitation. And vaccinations are not without potential danger. We still don't know the potential long-term effects of vaccination. An oft-repeated fact is that 36,000 people die each year from the flu. The government urges citizens to get vaccinated, presumably to prevent these deaths." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Incidence of Cold and Flu Symptoms according to Season and Vitamin D Supplementation 0 • Placebo 800 IU ^2000 IU Winter Spring Summer Fall Season of symptoms These findings are especially important because flu shots are not very effective. A review in the British Medical Journal came to the following conclusion: "Evidencefrom systematic reviews shows that inactivated vaccines [flu shots] have little or no affect on the effects measured. " - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"If an individual has had five flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years studied) her chances of getting Alzheimer's Disease is 10 times higher than if she had one, two or no shots. When asked why this was so, Fudenberg said it was due to the mercury and aluminum that is in every flu shot (and most childhood shots). The gradual mercury and aluminum buildup in the brain causes cognitive dysfunction. Is this why the number of those suffering from Alzheimer's is expected to quadruple?" - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Thimerosal is still in some flu shots, and it's a hotly contested debate in political and medical circles. Other additives common in vaccines include aluminum, formaldehyde, monosodium glutamate (MSG), sulfites, and the antifreeze ingredient ethylene glycol. Each of these chemicals has been linked to a host of health issues, from ADHD to brain, cardiovascular, and metabolic disorders. Throughout this book, and in particular chapters 9 and 10, you will learn about similar associations between toxins and disease. Many might surprise you, as will the truth to where poisons can loiter." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The CDC reports this side effect to be "rare, perhaps 1 or 2 per million flu shots given." Using the numbers determined from a variety of sources—including medical journals and government documents, it can reasonably be assumed that the flu shot may cause 40 cases of GBS per year. The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) database reveals that the average hospital charge per person for GBS is nearly $70,000. Add another $40,000 per person for rehabilitation costs after months of paralysis." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"If you've decided the time is right to try having a baby, you all sorts of little adjustments to clean up your life: • Avoid inoculations with thimerosal in them. flu shots often contain thimerosal, so check with your doctor before getting one. • Get into a habit of regular exercise, either on your own or with the support of your partner. Don't just exercise when you find out you're pregnant; make it an essential part of your day-to-day life. (If you start now, before you get pregnant, you'll want to continue.) Exercise is a great detoxifier, so don't be afraid to sweat!" - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "On the one hand, the American Academy of Pediatrics admits that there's "no safe level" of mercury exposure; on the other hand, the CDC is recommending that we give our kids flu shots that contain mercury. But why would we ever inject this known neurotoxin into the bloodstreams of our children? You don't have to be a doctor to understand that the possible long-term side effects of these exposures might be extremely serious; it's just common sense. The mercury is going to do something." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "So then I asked him, If you don't know that thimerosal is safe, why do you continue to advocate that the Department of Health and the CDC give thimerosal flu shots? In response, he asked me, "How will it look if we take out thimerosal from our own vaccines but continue to ship them to children in Third World countries?" Because of course our vaccine program is global, and the World Health Organization exports all of these vaccines to children all over the world. But does this rationale make any sense at all?" - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Later, the government began to recommend annual flu shots containing mercury to all children who were six months or older, and to pregnant women. This doubled the number of immunizations from eleven to twenty-two in a child's first eighteen months, and crammed them much closer together, which increased the vaccinations' toxic burden. Most of these vaccinations contained a form of mercury called thimerosal, which is a preservative." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"And are they any better at delivering the treatments that are considered the most effective—a prescription for heart attack patients to take an aspirin a day, for instance, and flu shots? Are they making sure their female patients get regular Pap smears, and do they take steps to ensure that surgical patients don't contract infections? Physicians and hospitals are so wedded to the notion that more dollars buy better care that despite thirty years of data, the Dartmouth group's findings had gained only grudging acceptance." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "That's because every individual patient record goes into a database, which allows the VHA to monitor not only what happens to patients, whether treatments such as flu shots are being delivered, and how long they spend on average in an ICU bed, but also how these factors affect their health. Here's an example. In 2003, in a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, VA quality control officers reported on the effect of Kizer's effort to cut the number of hospital beds between 1997 and 1999. The quality officers found that the number of days patients spent in a hospital bed went down by half." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In October 2004, CDC representatives announced their recommendation that children aged 6 months to 23 months should receive flu shots (which contain thimerosal) as part of the standard schedule of immunizations. Steve Cochi, the acting director of the National Immunization Program, underlined the CDC's official view of the vaccine-autism connection, citing a "lack of scientific evidence." This comes at a time when CDC officials were more than once made aware of the large body of scientific evidence that supports the vaccine-autism link." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "The yearly-administered flu shots repeatedly burden the immune system and cells of the body with foreign toxic material without giving them a chance to remove them again. The toxic viral particles can remain latent in the cells and gallstones for as long as 20 years; when they emerge, they can cause serious cell damage. With each new vaccination the immune system becomes more and more restricted in its effort to neutralize the live virus that suddenly appears in the blood." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"And are they any better at delivering the treatments that are considered the most effective—a prescription for heart attack patients to take an aspirin a day, for instance, and flu shots? Are they making sure their female patients get regular Pap smears, and do they take steps to ensure that surgical patients don't contract infections? Physicians and hospitals are so wedded to the notion that more dollars buy better care that despite thirty years of data, the Dartmouth group's findings had gained only grudging acceptance." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Deadly! flu shots Contain Mercury Mark A. Stengler, ND, naturopathic physician, La Jolla Whole Health Clinic, La Jolla, CA, and associate clinical professor, the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, OR. He is author of numerous books on natural healing, including The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies. Bottom Line, www.bottomlinesecrets.com. Every flu season, the government and much of the medical community promote flu vaccinations for millions of Americans. Should you get the vaccine? Here's what you need to know to make your decision... There are two types of vaccines..." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"They include ethical issues like who will get flu shots when there are not enough, and whether one country will share its supply with another. Trying to slow down a pandemic is like trying to turn around a giant freighter. It takes time and room to maneuver. But the flu is not a giant ship at sea. It's more like a fast-moving storm. A vaccination campaign might help. But experts contend that a sizable percentage of all people will need to be inoculated in order to lessen a pandemic's force. Scientists and governments are not waiting." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Once you have been infected by a particular strain of flu you become immune to it. flu shots are designed yearly to fight the flu bug that is prevalent in a particular year, so immunization is necessary on an annual basis. Influenza is spread through sneezing and coughing, when water droplets carrying the virus become airborne and are breathed in by others. It is also passed on through the spread of germs due to poor hand-washing hygiene." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"Even the flu shots people think to be safe contain mercury, formaldehyde, and a few other toxins. Studies show we have at least 400 to 800 toxins in our fat, tissues, and organs which can put our bodies into a toxic overload. These toxins can do damage to different areas of the body. One place where toxins do serious damage is the receptor sites used for absorbing our essential minerals in the intestines. When this happens, over time, it may cause all types of serious health problems." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"Four eggs are needed to make one to two conventional flu shots. That's four billion fertile eggs to vaccinate less than one-quarter of the world's population. But would enough chickens free of bird flu lay enough eggs? Because the risk of a pandemic is so imminent, the danger so great, and the profits for a new vaccine so high, scientists are feverishly working to develop egg-independent shots. One alternative is a recombination system that constructs a variety of viral genetic strains including possible antigenic drift types. This method produces many more viruses than can be made in eggs." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Perhaps flu shots do save some lives, but there is little doubt that vitamin D would do a much better job. Considering that daily supplementation with 2,000 IU per day of vitamin D can cost as little as $10.00 per year, a tremendous financial burden could be lifted from the health-care system and from the budget of elderly persons! Approximately 36,000 people die yearly from flu in the USA, and it is estimated that a pandemic similar to the one in 1918 could kill 1,000,000 or more. The solution: maintain optimal vitamin D levels." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"He wrote that if Americans have flu shots in the numbers predicted, as many as 2,300 will have strokes and 7,000 will have heart attacks within two days of being immunized. "Why? Because that is the number statistically expected, flu shots or no flu shots," he wrote. "Yet can one expect a person who received a flu shot at noon and who that same night had a stroke not to associate somehow the two in his mind? Post hoc, ergo propter hoc," he added." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.)

"An increasing number of reports indicate that adults who regularly receive flu shots suffer a worsening of high blood pressure, diabetes, gout, and Parkinson's disease as well as an increase in all kinds of allergic complaints. In 1976 an extensive flu vaccination program in America led to a massive outbreak of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disease affecting the nervous system. The outbreak, known as the "Great Swine Flue Fiasco," paralyzed 656 people and 30 elderly persons were found dead within hours after they were vaccinated." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"And this is in spite of the fact that an estimated 52 percent of the population aged 65 and older received flu shots in 1994, way up from an estimated rate of 20 percent in 1987, for example. If flu vaccinations are working so well, why is this happening? One reason is that as you age, which is when you need the most protection from flu, your body's ability to create antibodies to the vaccine deteriorates. It is known that only about half of the elderly who receive flu shots can mount an antibody response strong enough to be protective." - Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA, Bottom Line's Prescription Alternatives (Get the book.)

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