Thai Public Health Ministry To Provide Free Vaccines For Flu Prevention Nationwide

[dude123]

Flu vaccines are highly effective . In the last 22 years the vaccine matched the targeted viruses

18 times, even when they didn’t match, the vaccine drastically reduced the

severity of the flu. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm

Mercury based preservative is not used in single dose flu vaccine such as those in the clinics.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/thimerosal.htm

There was a long debate in our local newspaper about this that went on for weeks and yes, mercury is not used anymore or rarely, but is substituted by more dangerous posions.

[wilcopops]

Flu vaccines are highly effective . In the last 22 years the vaccine matched the targeted viruses

18 times, even when they didn’t match, the vaccine drastically reduced the

severity of the flu. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm

Mercury based preservative is not used in single dose flu vaccine such as those in the clinics.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/thimerosal.htm

There was a long debate in our local newspaper about this that went on for weeks and yes, mercury is not used anymore or rarely, but is substituted by more dangerous posions.

Clearly no idea of how a vaccine is prepared administered or how "poisons" or toxins work. please you really need to be able to sort the wheat from the chaff. Just because you read something - especially in a paper - it doesn't mean it is right. Get hold of HOW vaccines work and are made first THEN read those papers and you'll see what a bunch of misinformed idiots they are.

if that proves too much then at the end of the day, weigh the evidence and asses the risks - balance getting a vaccine against not having one. The results are dramatically conclusive.

Edited April 14, 2014 by wilcopops

[wilcopops]

Tamiflu was just accused by research in the UK of being no more effective than paracetamol.

You really have too learn to look at the whole picture - there may well have been a trial that suggested this - probably not in such black and white terms - but this would have been ONE of many.....you can't go round basing your views on one newspaper report on one article in one medical journal by one group. Take a look at the whole picture. Even if one vaccine WAS proved to be ineffective again it doesn't represent the whole picture.

when was the last time you heard of someone catching smallpox?

[Prbkk]

Tamiflu is an anti-viral drug for symptomatic treatment. It has nothing to do with this vaccine. The vaccine is of critical importance to those in high risk groups and it's pretty sleazy for some people to be scaremongering with BS.

Tamiflu is less effective than it once was , as resistant strains have developed. The suggestion that it is no more effective than paracetamol is ludicrous and no study has been published claiming that ( at least not in any credible journal).

[thailandforumaddict]

Hello,

Is it still free for Thai ? At any public hospital ? And every year when is it available ?

Thanks.