Flu Shot -- Friend or Foe?

What is in a flu vaccine?

Formaldehyde: a known cancer causing agent
Thimerosal: (a mercury derivative) used as a preservative in the vaccine, can cause brain injury and autoimmune disease.
Also this vaccine is propagated on chicken embryo cells.

How unsafe are flu vaccines?

Remember the Swine Flu vaccine disaster of 1976 that left over 565 cases of Guillain–Barre Syndrome paralysis, as well as other neurological problems and many unexplained deaths among recently vaccinated elderly.

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Although vaccine manufacturers try to say today’s vaccines do not carry the same risk of Guillian–Barre Syndrome as with the Swine Flu vaccine, many cases are still occurring after flu vaccines as well as other neurological problems. In the early 80’s Dr. John Seal of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease was heard stating that “We have to gone on the basis that any and all flu vaccines are capable of causing Guillian–Barre”.

Flu vaccine product inserts do state that individuals who have a history of Guillian–Barre syndrome have a substantially greater likelihood of subsequently developing Guillain–Barre Syndrome.

In 1970 Rosenberg, G.A. in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine wrote about meningoencephalitis being reported as a result of influenza vaccine. He then goes on to describe a case of a patient in which meningoencephalitis developed 12 days after vaccination with a purified influenza vaccine.
In an article published in the British Medical Journal in 1971, Wells warns that influenza vaccines may be complicated by a neurological illness. He also presents cases along with a summary of seven other cases.

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Other reactions that have been associated with past influenza vaccines are fever, malaise, Myalgia, hives, angiodema, allergic asthma, systemic anaphylaxis, Guillain–Barre Syndrome, encephalopathy, optic neuritis, brachial plexus neuropathy, many different types of paralysis, myletitis polyneuritis (including cases of polyradiculitis, polyradiculomyelitis, and polyganglioradiculities), Ataxia, respiratory infections, gastro–intestinal problems, eye problems, Allergic thrombocytopenia, etc.