Hi Lynn,
The below is taken from http://www.vaclib.org/basic/fluindex.htm
Ingredients: (sources are manufacturers statements.)
FluMist®: (MedImmune) Live attenuated cold adapted virus*, allantoic fluid (egg white), sucrose, potassium phosphate, and monosodium glutamate. Source http://www.drugs.com/PDR/Flumist_Vaccine.html.
FLUARIXTM: (GlaxoSmithKline) Chicken embryos, virus*, sucrose, sodium deoxycholate, formaldehyde, sodium phosphate, sodium chloride, octoxynol-10, Alpha-tocopheryl hydrogen succinate, and polysorbate 80, trace thimerosal (<1.25 mcg mercury per dose). Each dose may contain residual amounts of hydrocortisone, gentamicin sulfate, ovalbumin, formaldehyde and sodium deoxycholate.
Fluzone®: (Aventis-Pasteur) Chicken embryos, virus*, formaldehyde, sucrose, octoxinol-9, sodium phosphate, sodium chloride, Gelatin, thimerosal in the 5mL vials (25 ug mercury/dose), no thimerosal in prefilled syringes.
The horrible secret, that is not a secret, is that the flu vaccine is manufactured from previous strains of influenza. So this years vaccine is made from last years flu. THE CDC WILL TELL YOU THAT! They will also tell you that it probably won't help.
Five years consecutively will guarantee Alzheimer's Disease or some type of dementia. My 90 year old Dad who is in a nursing home is the only resident that does not get the vaccine and he is also the only one that does not get the flu.
Vaccines, when they began, were a way to prevent epidemics. The vaccines today cause them. No body is supposed to be pumped full of synthetic chemicals. The only way to stay healthy is to rid the body of the toxins, not add them. The immune system was built to fight off illnesses. Strengthen the immune system and your kids won't get sick. Mine use to, but don't anymore. That's because I changed the way I thought after I had done hoards of research. We don't even get a sniffle now and then....
If you want more information, I am an open book. I don't want anyone to suffer like I did as a child. Feel free to email me privately and ask...
Regards,
M.
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