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Post by concrete on Nov 14, 2009 20:31:01 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2009 8:02:51 GMT 10
Yeah, they are not realy pushing the vaccine over here, just encouraging the vunerable to have it. My wife, who is 5 months pregnant has been told by her doctor it would be a good idea to get it.
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Post by concrete on Nov 16, 2009 2:08:45 GMT 10
You could be right Brill. Did you know they're working on a non-smoking vaccine?
I've heard it disrupts the nicotine/brain connection somehow.
Imagine that.?
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Post by brillbilly on Nov 16, 2009 2:28:02 GMT 10
You could be right Brill. Did you know they're working on a non-smoking vaccine? I've heard it disrupts the nicotine/brain connection somehow. Imagine that.? 30 vaccines by time we are 12 and all the rest,wow thats a lot of mercury,ie thimerosal,great if you like it.i just think that the immune system will help me through any airborne virus but an injection straight in to the blood by passes the immune system and once its in your system there is no going back
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Post by brillbilly on Nov 16, 2009 3:02:50 GMT 10
BU student caught bacterial infection from lab, tests show,Sophisticated genetic fingerprinting confirmed that a laboratory experiment was the source of a bacterial infection that sickened a graduate student on Boston University’s medical campus, city disease investigators said yesterday.
Discuss COMMENTS (13) The genetic tests, conducted at the state laboratory in Jamaica Plain, compared a blood sample from the researcher with bacterial matter recovered from the lab where he was working on BU’s South End campus. “The bottom line,’’ said Dr. Anita Barry, top disease tracker at the Boston Public Health Commission, “is they matched.’’
The analysis erased any doubt about what caused the researcher to become sick last month and intensified investigations into precisely how he was exposed to a germ known as Neisseria meningitidis, which can cause meningitis.
The city’s biological lab safety division will review safety procedures in BU’s medical labs, to ensure that the school is doing everything possible to minimize researchers’ exposure to pathogens, Barry said. Investigators will examine what kind of protective gear the researcher was wearing, what kind of training he received, and how thoroughly he was supervised, Barry said.
The city strengthened its regulation of labs after three BU scientists became infected with tularemia in 2004, an episode that revealed sloppy lab practices and a failure to report those illnesses in a timely fashion.
This time, the university has pledged to operate transparently, promising to share findings of an internal investigation with scientists across the university and even researchers at other schools.
“We want others to learn if there are ways we identify that this could be prevented,’’ said Ara Tahmassian, associate vice president for research compliance at Boston University School of Medicine.
“When I look at this incident, it’s one too many,’’ said Tahmassian, who joined BU after the tularemia cases. “But if some of the other institutions can utilize what went wrong and hear the lessons learned, fantastic.’’
Tahmassian has convened a panel of specialists to review the incident and said he expects them to report expeditiously. “This is not going to be months,’’ he said. “This is going to be within a week or two, pinpointing the best we can.’’
The infection of the researcher, who has recovered, came at an awkward moment for BU. A federal health agency is conducting what is probably the final safety review of a controversial $200 million lab project the university has built to work with the world’s deadliest agents, including Ebola and plague. The centerpiece of that project, a high-security Biosafety Level-4 lab, is in a completed but unoccupied building on Albany Street.
The exposure of the graduate student - the university has not identified him, citing patient confidentiality rules - happened in a building next door to the contentious project. He was participating in the hunt for a vaccine against the form of meningitis caused by the germ.
The researcher was working in a Biosafety Level-2 lab, which has less stringent safety procedures than Level-4 labs. When he became ill, the graduate student sought medical attention and notified the director of the lab, concerned that his symptoms might be related to his research.
Unlike with the tularemia infections, BU alerted city disease investigators of their suspicions about the student within hours of learning about his illness. He is the only person who has become sick, Barry said.
Stephen Smith can be reached at stsmith@globe.com.
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Post by kurious on Nov 16, 2009 5:52:22 GMT 10
I say your all being paranoid, I had the vaccination two weeks ago & feel fine. I don't normally take vaccines as I am a healthy person & I eat right but I have a baby in my house now & he couldn't possibly hope to fight off the strain of flu at his current developmental stage.
Speaking of regular flu if you look into it, over the years more people actually have died from that strain & it's vaccination. The problem we have now is we may not have heard about this before but the internet has made the gossip chain that much faster & the information on these situations is more readily available IF YOU CHOOSE TO LOOK !!!
We are managing to avoid some of natural selection's pitfalls through our medicine with each decade that passes but every now & then somebody dies as they aren't strong enough or they aren't able to cope with OUR remedy for that situation, it's just the way it is.
I am also guilty of reading to much shit on the internet & nearly not going for the shot but I did alot of thinking & starring at my boy & you know what I just had to do it for his sake.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Whatever you decide take good care but dont let fear influence your decision, speak to a medical professional & not a Alex Jones type or what ever crap he has on his website.
PEACE
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Post by brillbilly on Nov 16, 2009 7:51:13 GMT 10
hi kurious,i respect what ever choice you make with regards to vaccine but for me its not about being paranoid as I'm not at all,i just dont like what goes in to vaccines and because its one new one after the other i cant keep track of them,for me i have been offered the swine flu vaccine because i have a low immune system count and have a degenerative spinal nerve problem.what ever you chose for you or your family i just wish you all well but for me i will give the swine flu vaccine a miss as its optional
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Post by kurious on Nov 17, 2009 11:25:42 GMT 10
Dude I can respect that totaly what I cant get with is all the scaremongering these 'tales' of bad ingredients end up making, I know because I was scared shitless whilst getting it after reading junk on the net.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2009 12:35:54 GMT 10
What are you talking about Brill, "aids", really?
I always understood AIDS to have been created by God to punish homosexuals, Pat Robertson and Gerry Falwell told me so. They are men of God, dont tell me they are lying to me.
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