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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2016, @04:24PM
the nasal passage is one way the body expects to be exposed to germs. the body is probably able to do it's job effectively against this nasal vaccine. this is also why administering vaccines by shot can be much more dangerous. especially when these pieces of shit grow vaccines in contaminated animal slurry and shoot many of them into your healthy toddler at the same time, some knowing damn well that they are giving your child cancer, developmental, psychological, etc. problems. i'm not against the idea of vaccines, just the disgusting way it's handled in the US. don't know how bad it may be elsewhere.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2016, @04:29PM
this also sounds suspicious as they can't get their soft kill weapon into your child unless you use the shot vaccine over the nasal so they claim the nasal is not effective, as if the shot is safe and effective. If you trust the CDC you're an idiot of the highest order. It's a shame people's kids have to pay for their parents being mindless slaves. Be sure and take your trusting wife to the hospital so they can pump her full of pitocin and cut your kid out of her and shoot it up with cancer and brain damage it.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2016, @08:15PM
Let me guess, you're all hung up this tinfoil bullshit, and yet you still mutilated your son's genitals.