To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate? Why Is It a Question?

(Blog Post) "People have become complacent," says Margaret Lewin, M.D. F.A.C.P., and medical director of Cinergy Health, a health insurance company that stresses preventive health care. "Today's families are too young to remember the fatalities and disabilities that can result from influenza Full Story »

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by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - Nov. 3, 2009

Thorough explicit and well written.

Rejecting flu shots is a lot like riding in a car without fastening your seatbelt. You know seatbelts save lives but you decide nothing will happen to you “this ... More »

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by Christine Ahlstrom - Nov. 3, 2009

The author has not done enough research on benefits of not getting vaccinated/ alternatives to getting vaccinated that may be more effective than a vaccine. The author says herself: "Even with medical progress, there are two guarantees with influenza: 1. The virus mutates--always. It may become milder, or it may become more virulent. There is no way to predict this in advance." If you get a vaccination you are not protecting yourself from mutations of the virus.... You are only ... More »

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