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Health See other Health Articles Title: The Wrong Flu Vaccine Yahoo... This year’s flu vaccine may not be strong enough to fend off the current strain of influenza that’s causing coughs and sore throats this season. On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control’s Tom Frieden said that the virus that it was designed to defeat has mutated, rendering flu shots markedly less effective. Part of the reason this year’s flu vaccine is less of a cold-fighting champion and more of a disease-succumbing dud is because flu vaccines are created months in advance of flu season. In February, the CDC formulated a strategy for creating this winter’s weapon based off of previous bouts with the seasonal flu. Each vaccine protects against three or four different strains of influenza. As such, a CDC panel chooses which strains to incorporate in a given year’s vaccine based off of the viral intelligence they previously gathered. For this winter, Frieden advised doctors to additionally prescribe their patients drugs such as Tamiflu and Relenza to defend from the unexpected viral onslaught, Reuters reported. Of the 85 influenza virus samples the CDC collected, only 48 percent matched the flu strain that their vaccine is best equipped to combat. According to the Los Angeles Times, this season’s vaccines thwart two types of influenza A viruses known as H1N1 and H3N2, in addition to a couple strains of influenza B viruses. Between October 1 and November 22 of this year, the CDC performed reconnaissance on their potential viral foes, and sent collected samples back to the lab for testing. But of the 85 influenza virus samples they collected, only 48-percent matched the flu strain that their vaccine is best equipped to combat, according to CNN. Although it’s common for flu viruses to mutate, it weakens the vaccine's ability to defeat it. That’s why the CDC has recommended early use of anti-viral medicines, as a sort of reinforcements for the vaccine. Despite the setback, the CDC still urges that people get their flu shots. "We are recommending strongly still that people who haven't been vaccinated get vaccinated," the CDC's Joe Bresee said to NBC. That message goes extra for parents with children. According to the CDC, of the 149 children that died during the 2012-2013 flu season and had flu-like symptoms, 90-percent were unvaccinated. That take-home message, Lisa Thebner, a New York City pediatrician, told CNN is that "the vaccine isn't perfect, but it's the best protection we have for prevention." This article was originally published at www.theatlantic.com/healt...hots-Inneffective/383453/ Poster Comment: Riley Buy a bulb of garlic peel off a clove remove the skin and swallow it with a half a glass of water, is the best thing to have avoid colds, soar throats, runny noses, fever and flu. If the clove is to big to swallow, cut it in half or quarters to swallow down. Doing this you never need flu injections or waste and spend money on cough, cold and flu medicine. you can 12-5 R.A.M.S True story! because flu is transmitted person to person. If you eat this much garlic, no one comes near you. FACT -1 Jared The thing with influenza is that each strain has different markers (proteins and what not) the immune system uses to identify and eradicate the disease from the body. With vaccines the idea is that the body can eliminate the virus before it goes "critical mass" and begins to exponentially replicate and cause illness. With a strain that the immune system does not immediately recognize then the virus will be able to run amok until the body can catch up. It takes months to ramp up production of vaccines into millions of doses so the powers that be do virulence testing on certain strains and the most virulent one (with the greatest genetic potential for fast replication) are the ones that get picked. Of course it is more or less a guessing game and if the wrong ones get picked there isn't much that can be done but at least the person is protected against the strains that are included which is something. 3-1 JeffW Right... and why are we (the Boomers) now coming down with so much lymphoma - due to constant injections (irritations) of our upper arm lymph nodes withj (often - as here) useless vaccines.. If they can't do a better job anticipating the changes in the virus, why get all these shots... to pad the pockets of the big Pharmas who make the useless vaccines and continue to try to develop more lucrative anti-cancer durgs.... NO THANKS. Might be useful for elderly, but otherwise, STAY AWAY 5-3 BrianDaBrian This isn't new information, in a majority of years the vaccine either missed the mark completely or was weakened by the mutations. The CDC isn't very good at predicting what will help and when they start promoting for pharmaceutical companies products one starts wondering who's in who's pocket. In the summer of 2011, Merck president Julie Gerberding said in a news interview, that she's "very bullish on vaccines," as she recounted the various ways she helps Merck sell its products. What she didn't divulge was her motivation for leaving her job as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) an agency charged with overseeing vaccines and drug companies, to join Merck back in January 2010. If you don't see the enormity of the influence her former high-level ties to the CDC can have, just consider the fact that Merck makes 14 of the 17 pediatric vaccines recommended by the CDC, and 9 of the 10 recommended for adults, Vaccine patents do not expire like drugs do, so each vaccine adopted for widespread use has the potential to make enormous, continuous profits for decades to come. Vaccine makers also enjoy a high degree of immunity against lawsuits and in the case of pandemic vaccines, absolute immunity, so the financial liability when something goes wrong is very low, and the profits very high, especially if they can convince the whole populace to shoot up their vaccines, that rarely ever work or help much. Why do you see so many free vaccinations of the flu vaccines, it's not unlike freeware or what AOL did early on. Saturate the market with your products and once a majority are using them, start charging for them. It is worth trillions of dollars in the long run for companies like Merck, although I might say that the pharmaceutical cocaine Merck made and distributed willing from 1862, when they made their first 1/4 pound, through the 1980's, when the Reagan administration upped the anti in Nixon's drug war, was much better than the gasoline laced cartel stuff, LOL! 4 Swede So all of you who got the shot felt sick for days for nothing. I refuse to fall for this Drug Company Cash Cow that is questionable at best. I had one Flu Shot in Basic Training and everyone was sick for a week, I have not had one since and have had the Flu maybe twice since 1982 when I went to Basic. 4-2 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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