Canadian study proves vaccinating kids against flu helps entire communities - Polidicks

I wonder how much they have to spend to point out the obvious? Plus influenza vaccines are going to cause more damage then good in the long run. The bodies immune system isn't going to be tuned to fight infection all that well. Would be interesting where that leads when a strain more powerful than that 'deadly' swine flu comes into place.

[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;20679752]I wonder how much they have to spend to point out the obvious? Plus influenza vaccines are going to cause more damage then good in the long run. The bodies immune system isn't going to be tuned to fight infection all that well. Would be interesting where that leads when a strain more powerful than that 'deadly' swine flu comes into place.[/QUOTE] You have absolutely no fucking clue how vaccines work, do you? The body has this thing called the innate immune system, this is comprised of such things as the epithelial cells and their configuration, the mucous membranes, phagocytes and NK (Natural-Killer) cells. This is a relatively good system for prevent infection via an unknown antigen. But where the really big guns come out is in the acquired immune response. Vaccines are a way of artificially triggering this acquired immune response. By injecting someone with an attenuated (weakened) or even inactivated/killed form of the pathogen, the body gains acquired immunity to the specific pathogen. This acquired immune response allows for the B-Cells to almost instantly recognize the pathogen, and send messages via interleukin to the T-Cells, which then form a swarm of antibodies that target specific epitopes, which then cross-link, bringing the pathogen out of solution, allowing the NK cells, and various monocytes to do their jobs much more effectively. If that was too long, here's the short version: [highlight]Vaccines train our natural immunity, they strengthen our immune response, not weaken it.[/highlight]

Goddamnit Kagrenak you beat me to it [editline]01:22AM[/editline] I wanted to lay the smackdown on him with medical science

[QUOTE=Lambeth;20679932]Goddamnit Kagrenak you beat me to it [editline]01:22AM[/editline] I wanted to lay the smackdown on him with medical science[/QUOTE] Sorry, I'm a Biotech/Immunology major, I got offended.

No need to apologize [editline]01:24AM[/editline] Probably explained it better than me anyway.

[QUOTE=Stupideye;20660436]hutterites are awesome[/QUOTE] no they're not they're fuckin dicks I work at a dollar store and they show up in their huge vans carrying like 400 people and come in and are rude as all hell and talk shit about everything in German and steal things constantly [B]AND THEY NEED A BAG EVEN FOR A SINGLE TINY FUCKING ITEM THEY COULD SLIP IN THEIR POCKET SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY'RE GREEDY FUCKS[/B]

I'm glad I'm not vaccinated for anything.

Its free in Canada thats for sure.

In my county in Florida you're required to go to school every day that you don't have a doctor's note for or else you fail your classes. They've increased the limit you can miss since then, but some kids would come to school sick and infect fucking everyone.

i guess you could say.... canada will [i]needle[/i] the vaccines it can get! xD

canadian? pfft