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If you or someone you know is planning on taking the vaccine, you might want to think again:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539880,00.html

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Thanks Squires. That was my bad.

And ever more panic spreads across the land!

I'm just sayin...

I don't know... the last time I got a flu vaccine, i got sick... before that i didn't..

H1N1 is NOT the regular flu vaccine. I have already had my first flu shot. It's mandatory for health care workers in NY this year. H1N1 is not mandatory yet, but it looks like it will be. I'm not looking forward to another one, but I will probably have to. I had 2 employees that came down with a fever after the first shot, but both missed only one day. That's a lot shorter than if they had gotten the flu.

That said, the only reason I get the vaccine is A: to encourage my employees (like the president did in '76 by getting his shot on TV) or B: because it's mandatory. I don't recall ever having had the actual flu. The vaccine has never really made me sick, but it sure as hell hurt this year.

Guillain-Barre syndrome, an instance where your immune system gets confused and attacks neurons, is not just from the swine flu vaccines. Any time you receive a vaccination or get sick, basically whenever your immune system gets activated as a result of infection, you have a very small chance to develop this neurological order. Sometime's its bad, others very mild, but it's not just from this immunization.

My question is this, how many lives were saved from that immunization? 25 people died from this immunization, but by inducing herd immunity as well as personal immunity, my guess would be that many more people would have died from this flu. The same goes in this present case. Although this swine flu isn't necessarily bad (the mortality from it is very low as compared to regular flu), by getting vaccinated you are removing yourself as a potential carrier of the disease, and because of it protecting others like those who may have weakened immune systems like elder parents/grandparents and young children as well as anyone you come into contact with on the street.