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Aylee -> RE: More On H1N1 Flu Death Cluster In PA (1/8/2011 12:45:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: maybemaybenot
Wel.... I'm sure I might be considered nutty by some, but I do not take Flu Vaccines either. I also don't discourage anyone from taking them. Being a nurse I get * harrassed * every year by my employer to get the vaccine, but stand firm on that one. I am 53 y/o and have had the flu once in my lifetime. It was certainly miserable, I thought I was dying a time or two. lol, but I just mustered thru it.
I have had other vaccines : Hepatitis B, MMR, small pox and all the usual ones. Interestingly, my small pox vaccine never took. I had it twice as a little one and I have no small pox scar. As I understand it my Pediatrician told my parents I had natural immunities to it, therefore the vaccine didn't take. I don't quite understand it, but that's what my Mother told me.
I'm not much for Western Medicine and tend to avoid it unless absolutely neccesary. I use herbs and acupuncture to treat most of my conditions, spare my chronic kidney disease which I take Western Medicine in conjunction with Chinese Medicine to control it.
As for the flu: I have my Chi adjusted and balanced seasonally thru acupuncture to boost my immune system. < among other things >
I have very little fear of the flu. Hell, I went to Mexico two weeks after the swine flu supposed epidemic, with no fears and no second thoughts of cancelling.
mbmbn
Perhaps you meant that you had chicken pox and not small pox as I believe that disease was been eradicated from the world in the late seventies (and much earlier in the United States) through a widespread worldwide vaccination campaign and is only alive in government labs in the U.S. and Russia.
No, I think that she meant that she was given the small pox innoculation twice. At 53 y/o she is of the right age to still be receiving it. I think that they stopped innoculating for it in the US in 1970.
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