Before You Get the Flu Vaccine...

*Three Reasons to Reconsider Flu Shots*

There are three major reasons why this government push to vaccinate 84 percent of the U.S. population with a yearly flu vaccine is so incomprehensible:

1. The majority of flu shots contain 25 micrograms of mercury
an amount considered unsafe for anyone weighing less than 550
pounds! And which groups are most sensitive to the neurological
damage that has been associated with mercury?
Infants, children, and the elderly.

2. No studies have conclusively proven that flu shots prevent
flu-related deaths among the elderly, yet this is one of the key groups to which they’re pushed.

3. If you get a flu shot, you can still get the flu (or flu-like
symptoms). This is because it only protects against certain strains,
and it’s anyone’s guess which flu viruses will be in your area.

So why would you take a flu shot – EVERY YEAR -- that has NEVER been proven to be effective, that can give you the very illness you’re trying to prevent, and has potential long-term side effects that are far worse than the flu itself?

The powers that be have done an excellent job of instilling fear into the population so they believe that they must get a shot to stay healthy, but the simple reality is it’s doing you more harm than good.

And, even if the flu vaccine could effectively prevent the flu, there have been several examples in past years where government health officials have chosen the incorrect influenza strains for that year’s vaccine. In 2004, the National Vaccine Information Center described how CDC officials told everyone to line up for a flu shot that didn't even contain the influenza strain causing most of the flu that year

*Two-Thirds of This Year’s Flu Vaccines Contain a Full-Dose of Mercury*

According to Dr. Donald Miller, MD, two-thirds of this year’s flu vaccines contain 25 micrograms of thimerosal. Thimerosal is 49 percent mercury by weight.

Each dose of these flu vaccines contains more than *250 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety limit for mercury*.

By now, most people are well aware that children and fetuses are most at risk of damage from this neurotoxin, as their brains are still developing. Yet the CDC /still/ recommends that children over 6 months, and pregnant women, receive the flu vaccine each year.

In addition to mercury, flu vaccines also contain other toxic or hazardous ingredients like:

* Formaldehyde -- a known cancer-causing agent
* Aluminum -- a neurotoxin that has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease
* Triton X-100 -- a detergent
* Phenol (carbolic acid)
* Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)
* Various antibiotics: neomycin, streptomycin, gentamicin – which
can cause allergic reactions in some people

*The Evidence Against Flu Vaccines *

For those of you who are still unconvinced, know that there’s plenty of scientific evidence available to back up the recommendation to avoid flu vaccines – if nothing else, then for the simple reason that they don’t work, and don’t offer any real benefit to offset their inherent health risks. For example:

* A brand new study published in the October issue of the /Archives
of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine/found that vaccinating young children against the flu had /no impact /on
flu-related hospitalizations or doctor visits during two recent
flu seasons. The researchers concluded that "significant influenza
vaccine effectiveness could not be demonstrated for any season,
age, or setting" examined.

* A study published in the /Lancet
just two months ago found that influenza vaccination was NOT
associated with a reduced risk of pneumonia in older people. This
supports a study done five years ago, published in /The NewbEngland Journal of Medicine



* Research published in the /American Journal of Respiratory and
Critical Care Medicine last month also confirms that there has been no
decrease in deaths from influenza and pneumonia, despite the fact that
vaccination coverage among the elderly has increased from 15 percent in 1980
to 65 percent now.

* Last year, researchers with the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, and the National Institutes of Health
published this conclusion in the /Lancet Infectious Diseases
“We conclude that frailty selection bias and use of non-specific
endpoints such as all-cause mortality have led cohort studies to
greatly exaggerate vaccine benefits.”

* A large-scale, systematic review of 51 studies, published in the
/Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in 2006, found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more
effective than a placebo in children. The studies involved 260,000 children,
age 6 to 23 months.