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A CDC panel has concluded that a spray version of the influenza vaccine is ineffective and shouldn't be used during the 2016-2017 flu season:
What led to the abrupt fall of FluMist — the nasal spray version of influenza vaccine — which until recently was considered the first choice for younger children? On Wednesday, an advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that the spray version was so ineffective, it shouldn't be used by anyone during the 2016-2017 flu season.
Just two years ago, that same Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices [ACIP] recommended FluMist as the preferred alternative for most kids ages 2-8, after reviewing several studies from 2006-2007 that suggested the spray was more effective in kids than the injectable forms of the vaccine.
What changed to make the spray so much less effective than studies had shown it to be in the past? The bottom line is that right now "we don't understand what it is," said David Kimberlin, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, who said academic researchers and those at MedImmune, the subsidiary of Astra Zeneca that makes FluMist, are working to get answers.
AstraZeneca, the maker of FluMist, says its own numbers conflict with the CDC's. The ACIP recommendation must be reviewed by the CDC's director before it can become official policy. The FluMist spray comprises 8% of the projected vaccine supply for the upcoming flu season.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by tisI on Tuesday June 28 2016, @03:11PM
Flu vaccines don't work anyway.
They are a multi-billion dollar snake-oil scam concocted from random toxic waste reserves such as Mercury, and active Polio virus.
They don't do shit except give a brief feel good moment to the victim, and a massive cash infusion into some mega-multinational corporations.
In the uSA Corporations are people now, and their dirty money is free speech.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself."
(Score: 1) by letssee on Tuesday June 28 2016, @05:42PM
bullshit.
They're not 100% effective, true, but they do work.
I'm entitled to a flu vaccine, because I have a lung disease. I'll used to get every flu that passes by without it. 2 weeks of being very sick every year. Until I started the vaccines 6 years ago. Everybody in my direct vicinity still sick, I escape with a minor (2 days ) fever and a bit of sniffling.
Until I forgot to get my shot last winter. Back to 2.5 weeks of misery.
Could be a coincidence, but I'm not the only person this happens to.
The mercury content of a shot is minimal. You probably get mor eheavy metal poisoning from your drinking water.