Posted by yxibow on May 1, 2009, at 18:35:17
In reply to Re: Anyone had psychiatric side effects from Tamiflu? » Phillipa, posted by yxibow on May 1, 2009, at 15:26:37
> > Jay had three small kids during the 70's outbreak got the vaccination no side effects and no one got sick with the flu either.
Forgot to cover that one -- not only could it cause a flu because it was not attenuated enough like today's vaccines which -DO NOT- cause flus but may cause temporary aching in the shoulder, but there was a much higher rish of Guillain-Barré than there is today (which basically hovers in the once in a million range, aggregated if those cases ever developed into a more serious version, would affect only 300 people in the US.)
And that's why though there are even more novel ways of vaccine creation which are quicker and potentially even more safe, there is always lessons from the past of rushing a vaccine in a pandemic.
It its probably akin to what numbers of people in the 50s and beyond who did not get the later developed inactivated Salk vaccine but instead the oral Sabin vaccine, had the potential of contracting polio from the vaccine.
Today, despite activists shunning vaccines from their children for religious reasons, the cases of any multivalent vaccines in children causing illnesses is basically none.
In fact, those who don't vaccinate their children with standard vaccines or are not tested for TB risk spreading largely eradicated diseases to the general population.
TB, though with with a vaccine used in some places, remains a non-eradicated disease. It is treatable, though with resistance, by antibiotics.
-- Jay
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