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Old 10-22-09 | 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by thermador
This article aboot a Canadian study is particularly interesting, as their survey of 3 million+ people indicated that people who got the vaccine for swine flu were more likely to get it: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1303330/
No, that's not what that article says, at all. The study "suggested that people vaccinated against seasonal flu are twice as likely to catch swine flu." (emphasis mine) Your summarization is woefully inaccurate and extremely misleading, as it suggests that the swine flu vaccination is worse than totally ineffective (i.e., that getting a vaccination for swine flu makes you more susceptible to swine flu rather than less). Instead, the question raised by the study is whether receiving a vaccination for a completely different disease makes one more susceptible to swine flu.

There's enough ignorant paranoia out there about the flu vaccine. Let's not add to it.
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