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Where are your references? Do you have stock in MedImmune? Did you choose Flumist because it is a live vaccine? Please elaborate!
Zole,
since I see you are posting from a blog where the pharmacists are pharmds, i won’t waste my time with the references crap… if you were paying attention in class you would know the info presented here is the foundation info they teach about influenza vaccines. if you’ve been paying attention to the articles published in the cdc’s emerging infectioous diseases journal you’d also know that there has been some indication that immunity from immunizations may be lasting longer, and that is surprising enough to them to warrent significant comment.
no, i do not own any medimmune stock. in fact, i think they’ve been bought out a couple of times and you couldn’t own their stock if you wanted to. and, no… i do not know or care enough to research who owns them now. i don’t own stock in anyone’s company.
yes, i like flumist because it is a live vaccine and has been shown to provide better protection than the shots. the posting tries to explain why in laymans terms. you do not need that simplification if you were paying attention in school. i’m sure you can track down the supporting studies and their details as well as i can. i’ve read them once, heard the data presented at an influenza conference, and heard the docs discuss their own experiences.
if you don’t agree after reviewing the literature then we will just have to agree to disagree.
i never get my shot. sometimes get flumist. never get the flu. neither do my peers who follow this regimen. and we work in the hospital’s emergency room dealing with flu patients all season. but the lemings who line up every year to get their shots… well, let’s just say they use up a lot of sick leave in the flu season.
you’d do well to hug a flu patient yourself this year. start early and do it often… a reference yu should read – with attention to the propsed reason health care workers didn’t die at the same rate as the rest of the population during the 1918 spanish flu catastrophe – is found here http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/2/10-2042_article.htm. yes, that’s the cdc’s publication.
i do not mean to be short with you.. but i’m busy, and so are my readers. please don’t waste everyone’s time.