A 51-year-old Fountain Valley man died from influenza-B-related disease, making him the first person in Orange County to die from flu-related causes this season, the county Health Care Agency announced today.
The man, whose name was not released, died last week, according to the county.
Health officials said the man's death should serve as a reminder for people to get vaccinated, noting the flu season has not yet peaked in the area.
The highest priority groups that should be vaccinated are children under 5, especially those under 2; pregnant women; people aged 65 or older; people who are morbidly obese; children and adolescents receiving long-term aspirin therapy; people with chronic diseases such as heart or lung disease, diabetes or asthma; people with weakened immune systems; and health care workers.
Information on obtaining a flu shot is available online at http://findaflushot.com. The county also offers shots to eligible people through a vaccination program, with information available by calling (800) 564-8448 or online at www.ochealthinfo.com.
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Do you get the flu shot every year? Why or why not?
- City News Service
Yes. Because it is recommended for me by my PCP at my bi-annual visit, affordable, and the cheapest precaution against flu. Reduces my odds of contracting it significantly with negligible downside. There, the dog whistle to anti-vaccers has now been issued loud and clear. May pandemonium reign!
That message gets lost, because, heck, I am stumped as to why parents disregard science. I hurts us: http://bit.ly/theG1r
Did you ever wonder what they know that we don't know? Hmmm? Ask a nurse sometimes if her doctors get a flu shot? You might be surprised at the answer you get. :)
from http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/12/10/hlsb1214.htm
So that's what the doctors told them? heh. Again, ask you nurse how many of the docs in the office were vaccinated. Why would you believe government stats? You should know better than that.
I'm guessing that he had significant disease that compromised his immune system. Healthy people don't die from the flu. Don't buy the hype.
1) Vaccines do not CAUSE Autism -- they make the ALREADY Autistic child LESS FUNCTIONAL, because of heavy metal build up. THIS is why Mercury & other additives matter. So, if a child is Autistic, they often make their functioning & symptoms worse. THIS is why there are no conclusive studies on this -- because you would FIRST have to know the child was Autistic, then separate those kids and vaccinate vs. not as a control group to study. Since there are no ways (other than what I do) to do early identification, no study has ever been accurate. It's like comparing apples to oranges. This is also why some people (like Jenny McCarthy, & many other parents) SWEAR their child suddenly had impacts of vaccines. They HAVE. 2) Vaccines are BIG BUSINESS. Don't you wonder why there is a separate court just for Vaccine issues? That's right, in the US we actually have a "Vaccine Court". You cannot sue in regular court. Look it up. 3) My kids have repeatedly gotten the flu, despite the vaccine. As someone else pointed out-they don't work for everyone. So why risk it? Especially for young kids.
Please cite the peer-reviewed scientific literature that affirms this, because http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/thimerosal/thimerosal_timeline.html goes against what you claimed. Also, thimerosal was removed from vaccines in Denmark and Sweden in the early 1990s. Yet autism rates continued to increase after that. How do you explain that? A recent study showed a similar trend in the US where despite finding no connection to autism, in the late 1990s, thimerosal was removed from some drugs. "Vaccines are BIG BUSINESS" So would a company make more money by administering the three or four doses of the polio vaccine, or would a company make more money by continually treating an unvaccinated child with polio? Are BIG BUSINESSes so dumb that they'll simply rip you off with cheap shots when they can create an whole industry out of treating the disease? "I'm quickly becoming an expert in Autism--found out by accident my "healing" gift Thought Shifting(TM) helps these kids" Fortunately that is not big business, otherwise people might suspect an ulterior motive. Like Tor Eckman, Kramer's holistic healer on Seinfeld: http://youtu.be/uH5IMv2jeuk Oh, and what Kelly Gottus said.
1) I did not say these children have Mercury Poisoning (so all Mad Hatter comments off the table) 2) Nor did I say Austim is CAUSED by heavy metals. I was very clear it can CONTRIBUTE to symptoms. It is effectively an overload of the nervous system. It is "one more thing" in a sea of perservatives, chemicals, & environmental factors that throws some children over the edge so to speak, depending on what else they are already exposed to, & the rate they detox. Absent Vaccines, & even with chelation, yes they still have Autism. But, they do not have to have such severe symptoms. 2) If you have researched this area, you will then know that Autistic children do not detox at the same level as other children. This is why the metal/toxins build up. 3) Autism is not a Psychiatric "disease" (I was quoted on the DSM changes), it is largely neurological. There is currently a debate about whether or not Autism even belongs in the DSM. I say it doesn't. 4) If you have specifically separated Autistic children from not before any vaccines, then studied it, I would be all over that research. Please share. 5) All this has really nothing to do with the FDA ... it doesn't mean Vaccines aren't SAFE. It means they can be a CONTRIBUTOR to Autism. I attempted to explain why, instead of just stating what is obvious to many parents of Autistic kids. 6) Using what I've uncovered (this & much more), I have reversed the major effects of Autism.
I'm with you completely!
Actually you were very clear that it *does* contribute. "Vaccines do not CAUSE Autism -- they make the ALREADY Autistic child LESS FUNCTIONAL, because of heavy metal build up" is what you said. What you do not provide is the scientific evidence behind your claim. "Using what I've uncovered (this & much more), I have reversed the major effects of Autism." Business must be booming, congratulations!
We are seeing the resurgence of eradicated diseases that we haven't seen in this country for 50 years. Ask yourself "why?". :)
"It has nothing to do with our borders. If children are vaccinated they won't get these diseases." I laugh at your moniker, fact checker. Because you don't have a clue about what you say and your 'facts' are far fetched. lol. The CDC itself has said that medically unscreened illegal immigrants who enter the country without authorization are bringing these ungodly diseases that we eradicated 50 years ago in America back to our country. If you were truly a 'fact checker' you would know this. And parents have NO CHOICE but to vaccinate their kids if they enter the school system. It is a REQUIREMENT under the school codes. So, again, you don't know what the heck you're talking about. You need a crash course in 'fact checking' before you comment on these boards. lol.