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what boompa said. health care workers are also required to get the seasonal flu shot. hanging out around a bunch of sick people is a prime way to get, and spread, the flu.
and to reiterate, this is their *employer* requiring that they get the shot, not the federal government.
"Thimerosal is a mercury-containing organic compound (an organomercurial). Since the 1930s, it has been widely used as a preservative in a number of biological and drug products, including many vaccines, to help prevent potentially life threatening contamination with harmful microbes. Thimerosal has been removed from or reduced to trace amounts in all vaccines routinely recommended for children 6 years of age and younger, with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccine. A preservative-free version of the inactivated influenza vaccine (contains trace amounts of thimerosal) is available in limited supply at this time for use in infants, children and pregnant women." - FDA
Influenza vaccine in multi-dose vials is the only vaccine to contain thimerosol. So find a place that uses thimerosol-free flu vaccine if you're more concerned about the mercury in the vaccine, which is of a form that is quickly eliminated from the body, than you are about the mercury in your tuna-fish sandwich or your tuna noodle casserole, or the big slab of tuna you ate last night in that fancy restaurant.
what boompa said. health care workers are also required to get the seasonal flu shot. hanging out around a bunch of sick people is a prime way to get, and spread, the flu.
and to reiterate, this is their *employer* requiring that they get the shot, not the federal government.
Anyone working in health care knows this. If there is an outbreak of any communicable disease, workers would be expected to take the appropriate prophylactic. Health care workers in South Africa are required get Tuberculosis vaccines, etc. Now is it the health care workers right to refuse getting a flu shot? Sure, but I would imagine it will reduce your job security. Imagine all the patients in a bone-marrow tranplant unit dying because one nurse didn't want to get a flu shot.
Influenza vaccine in multi-dose vials is the only vaccine to contain thimerosol. So find a place that uses thimerosol-free flu vaccine if you're more concerned about the mercury in the vaccine, which is of a form that is quickly eliminated from the body, than you are about the mercury in your tuna-fish sandwich or your tuna noodle casserole, or the big slab of tuna you ate last night in that fancy restaurant.
Hey I'm on your side in this. Just providing a link to a reputable site before we get the obligatory mercola link.
Recent research on many fronts in medicine and science has nailed the coffin shut on the mercury-in-vaccines-causes-autism hypothesis. The connection is just not there. Perhaps the key fact, which has garnered little attention, is that thimerosal has been removed from vaccines in this and other countries for many years, with no obvious impact on the incidence of autism.
Recent research on many fronts in medicine and science has nailed the coffin shut on the mercury-in-vaccines-causes-autism hypothesis. The connection is just not there. Perhaps the key fact, which has garnered little attention, is that thimerosal has been removed from vaccines in this and other countries for many years, with no obvious impact on the incidence of autism.
Funny how the same people falling in line to be immunised if ordered to also rail on about the 'big evil pharmaceutical companies'...
believe it or not, the world is not black and white. i am actually capable of having both positive and negative opinions about the products and actions of pharmaceutical corporations, and i'm sure most of the people arguing the pro-immunization/pro-science/anti conspiracy theory side are too.
i don't get flu shots, by the way, even though i work for a public health nonprofit that sometimes does immunizations. i personally think only people at high risk of complications or transmission should get them. i haven't made my mind up about h1n1 yet.
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Not only that, but they'll never change.
