ARTICLE BY DR. MERCOLA FROM HIS
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MERCOLA.COM 3/15/03
Flu Vaccine Not Working - - CDC Admits. What Are Your Options?
Yesterday
the CDC finally admitted the obvious. The flu vaccine does not work. Over 83
million doses of vaccine were made and even the CDC states that the
"protection" will not be the usual 70 percent to 90 percent, and some
of their experts fear it is well below 50 percent. The CDC committee voted 17-1
to bring back last year's version. Now EVERY one of them are regretting their
vote. Do you know who the sole dissenting vote was cast by? Barbara
Fischer who is the president, National
Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) served as the consumer voting member of
the FDA Advisory Committee. The
Flu vaccine
only protects against the three specific viruses which are included in any
given year's flu vaccine formulation and does not protect against throat,
respiratory, gastrointestinal and ear infections caused by bacteria and other
kinds of viruses. When the match between the vaccine and circulating viruses is
close, the flu vaccine is thought to provide a 70 to 90 percent chance of
temporary immunity to selected strains in healthy persons less than 65 years
old. For those over 65 years old, the efficacy rate drops to 30 to 40 percent,
although it is considered to be 50 to 60 percent effective in preventing
hospitalization or pneumonia and 80 percent effective in preventing death from
flu caused by the covered strains
Wouldn't it
make more sense to build up one's immune system? That is the strategy that I personally
use and encourage everyone else to follow as it is highly effective. But for
those of us that succumb to the holiday temptations and consume far more junk
food than is wise, thus weakening our immune system and making us susceptible
to the flu there are far more effective therapeutic strategies. I discussed
these in my lead
article in last Saturday's newsletter.
Yesterday I
also received an email from a newsletter subscriber that had written the CDC
with my warnings about the flu vaccine and they were given the following
information:
"Phenol
and Thimerosal (mercury) are preservatives that kill off contaminants in the
vaccine, and aluminum is added to some vaccines to improve the immune system's
response to the antigen, which can be so small that our immune system would not
even identify the foreign substance on its own. Aluminum is the most abundant
element in the Earth's crust and is present in air, food, and water. Quantity
in vaccines is roughly equal to infant formula. Thimerosal has been studied by
the Institutes of Medicine which was unable to link thimerosal to any adverse
events or neurological damage."
To my
understanding this is reprehensible misinformation as it seeks to provide a
sense of reassurance that is in no way shape or form justified. Do you want any
of the following vaccine constituents in YOUR bloodstream?
It is almost
laughable, if it weren't seriously harming people, that the CDC could continue
to state that thimerosal is not harmful when they issued a warning
to remove it from vaccines over four years ago. And to describe aluminum as
not harmful because it is abundant in the earth and present in infant formula
is malicious nonsense. The CDC implies that we should consider aluminum in our
trace mineral supplements. But don't you find it curious that aluminum is so
abundant in the earth but it has not yet been found to be useful for any biological
systems?
So do
yourself a favor and eat
healthy, avoid the junk, sleep well, stay emotionally balanced and skip the
flu shot and the flu all in one fell swoop.