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Is it true that a healthy young person should not get flue vaccines?

I heard that the vaccine only gives you protection from very few types of flue while making more susceptible to thousands of others and it's always better to fight it with your immune system to make it stronger. I know kids & elderly people should get vaccinated but I'm debating if I should do that. I'm young and healthy. Thank you for any information

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  • 1 decade ago
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    No one should get flu shots. It is one of the biggest scams of the 21st century being leveled at the American public. Why would anyone want to contaminate and damage the sanctity of human blood is beyond me.

    Vaccines are not what they are cracked up to be. They produce temporary immunity at best and their effectiveness has just not been proven. All you have to do is look at the statistics. In particular, the Aids virus was started by a polio vaccine created by the Merke company that is now attempting to come up with a vaccine for aids! These lunatics killed 50,000 rhesus monkeys developing this polio vaccine and then proceeded to give it to many homosexuals in South Africa, San Francisco, and New York. They were not aware that their filters did not prevent the HIV disease from going into the vaccines.

    Look at polio. When Salk first introduced the vaccine to the world, polio was on it's way out as all diseases like polio eventually leave the gene pool. There were only about 3,000 cases that year recorded. The year before, there were about 20,000 cases. Salk got the credit for eradicating the disease, but he freely admits that the vaccine caused more cases of polio than the disease caused. Over 95% of all polio cases were not even known because most people that got it, thought it was a cold or flu. Those people that got it, developed the real, lasting immunity to the disease. Polio is basically a very mild disease, unless your immune system is very weak. That is what happened to those who developed paralysis from the polio and that was only about 1% of all the cases.

    So why not just build up our immune systems like so many people in the world do instead of subjecting our bodies to these vaccines? Good question.

    Flu shots contain huge amounts of mercury in the form of Thimerosol that is in there as a preservative. We know that mercury causes Alzheimer's disease. Look at the 5 minute video produced by the Calgary University School of Medicine that shows conclusive proof that mercury kills brain cells and produces tangled neurodendrites that occur in Alzheimer's disease. WEB SITE: www.commons.ucalgary.ca/mercury

    Then after watching that, ask yourself why does our American Dental Association allow Amalgam fillings. They say, "because there is no definitive proof that mercury causes Alzheimer's." Oh really? Amazing.

    Now ask yourself why the CDC, EPA, etc. warn us of eating fish that contains mercury. Why hazardous waste people are called in to clean up neon breakage due to mercury contamination. The answer is simple, profit over health.

    Are you aware that the statistics show that if you get a flu shot each year for 5 years, your chances of getting Alzheimer's disease goes up to 80%! The best way to protect yourself from the flu is to build up your immune system and make your body strong, not break it down by contaminating the sanctity of your blood with that garbage.

    good luck to you

    Source(s): many years of nutritional studies - B.A. Biology & Chemistry
  • 1 decade ago

    Each year the flu vaccine is made to cover the 2 or 3 flu viruses that are most likely to spread across the U. S. The vaccine will only give you immunity for a few months but that is long enough to get you through the flu season. Some people mistakenly believe that it is supposed to last for years but that is incorrect. The very young and the very old are more susceptible and get sicker when they do contract the virus- that is why they are encouraged to get it more than other healthy people. However, anyone who contract the virus can get quite ill and even if you are young and healthy you can be pretty darn miserable for a week or two. Getting the vaccine will not weaken your immune system. I would reccomend that you get the vaccine if you have the opportunity. It certainly won't hurt you and just may prevent a couple weeks of misery.

    Source(s): I'm a pharmacist
  • 1 decade ago

    A vaccine is a dead or weakened virus which is injected to someone. No disease develops but the body still produces antibodies to fight that particular virus. The vaccine itself isn't responsible for keeping someone from catching the virus, not entirely. It basically builds up immunity for a particular virus. If you're young and healthy, it's not really necessary for you to get vaccinated, if it's for the flu or something "simple" like that. If it's for something more serious, then yeah, get vaccinated. But usually, young children are still building their immune system and the immune system of the elderly, don't want to say it but it's true, begins to fail them. That's why they need it more than the young(I'd say roughly from ages 18-45) and healthy.

  • 1 decade ago

    The flu vaccine should protect you from pretty much all types of flu developed through last flu season. Every year a few more types come out, so you can get those even with the vaccine. The vaccine does not make you more susceptible to the new types of flu, but does not generally protect you from them either. If you are young and healthy, you can take your chances or you can get the vaccine, either way. I will get my flu shot this year, as I have for many, many years. As a kid I got it because I have asthma. Now I get it not only cuz I have asthma but I also work in healthcare. Since I work in healthcare, I am at higher risk for catching it from patients and also at high risk for spreading it to my patients if I have it. I have had one possible flu in the last several years. It was never diagnosed as flu, but I was sick enough that it could have been flu. I wound up in the ER with a horrible asthma attack and ended up on months of meds trying to get over that.

    By the way, the "superbugs" the other person was referring to are not related to vaccines in any way. The superbugs are bacteria, not viruses like the flu. Their development is related to overuse of antibiotics, not vaccines.

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  • 1 decade ago

    you've got this entirely wrong. getting a vaccination whether it be for flu or any other disease produces the same exact immune response as if you were exposed to the disease itself. the dose you are getting from the vaccination is very small and of dead cells so your body doesn't go through all of the miserable symptoms fighting it off (but still is able to manufacture specific immune cells that can target and kill the virus immediatly if you come in contact with it later) as it would if you contracted it from another person. getting vaccinated is not only a good idea for your own health but also for the health of those around you, as this type of thing spreads rediculously easily from person to person. it will protect you from the majority of common strains of the virus but you might be unlucky to catch a particularly virulent strain that the vaccination won't help much against. this as i've stated is just a product of luck and IS NOT the product of getting the vaccination. everyone should get vaccinated if not for the sake of sparing themselves the crappiness of being sick but also sparing those they come in contact from sickness as well.

  • mjls15
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    They say its better to not get vaccinated if you're young and healty because you need to build up a resistance to it so if a stronger form comes along it won't/or shouldn't affect you so much.

    But then again they predict a huge flu epidemic since there hasn't been one in 60 years and by the law of ....sorry i forgot it means we are over due for one.

  • Kylie
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I don't believe the young and healthy should bother.

    The current vaccine covers (supposedly) for last years infection. Every year there is a new one.

    Also, just because you get vaccinated it doesn't mean it will actually work & stop you getting sick.

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  • 1 decade ago

    i was reading an article for a biology 107 class called superbugs. it basically goes through the problems that are accumulating in the hospitals. you see, bacteria are constantly finding new ways to bypass antibiotics etc. in fact, they have gotten so good at that that they are now able to USE the antibiotics to grow resistant genes. in other words, the one thing that we thought would heal us from bacteria is actually helping the bacteria become invincible. if you want to have that comfort of knowing you got the vaccine then you should, but personally i think its a waste of time.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the only reason is that the flu shots are usually made in batches and they assume that only old and very young will get the shots, so if young and healthy get a shot, it will cause a shortage.

    Simple supply and demand type of thing.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    False. Boys always keep their rooms shabby, no thing is at its place bed is field of war, its hard to find shoes pair in the room as one shoe always tracing the other, ON THE other hand Girls keep their rooms neet and clean, and one like to enter and stay for hours long. Thank you.

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