The vaccine: Will you, or won’t you?

CVella

Jan 12th 2010, 00:48

Many hustle and bustle going on around the word with this swine flu vaccine thing.
It is a new vaccine to us which I honestly doubt on how much study was given into it considering the urgent nature of its introduction to the world.

J.Abela

Jan 10th 2010, 19:11

I'm really disappointed to read some of the comments below.

I, for one, have not taken the vaccine, especially since it's rather 'new', and all the tests claimed to have been done on it, do not impress me.

However I respect all those who did take it.

Some believe in medication, some believe in their immune system: What's the big deal at the end of the day?

Seems like reading some Little Johnny jokes!

A. Borg

Jan 10th 2010, 15:08

If WE who will NOT take the vaccine be infected we will take the Tamiflu which is tried,safe and tested. So dear Zombies,we will not die!

gaffarena joseph

Jan 10th 2010, 12:06

I, took the jab,and the only side effect was loosing my memory that i am married lol.

M Micallef

Jan 9th 2010, 19:25

From the actual pamphlet given post vaccination: "Pregnancy and breast-feeding: tell your doctor if you are pregnant, think you are pregnant, plan to become pregnant. You should discuss with your doctor whether you should receive Pandermix. The vaccine may be used during breast-feeding"
Read: we have no idea what the reaction on pregnant women and their foetus is, so let your doctor be held liable for any damages!
So much for the recommendation for pregnant women to take the vaccine.
WHO said it is no longer a pandemic so sleep tight!!

A.Azzopardi

Jan 9th 2010, 15:52

Those who take the vaccine - one in so many many many thousands might get serious side effects.

Those that don't - one in so many many many thousands might die

Either way you got a risk factor - so might as well take the jab u spicca.

And if the didn't test the jab properly, in 10 years time, we millions who took it might turn in flesh eating zombis and we'll kill you and eat you just the same. So you'll die. (again you're dead)
If you take the jab and turn into a zombi you might live longer eating fellow humans, then they might (the ones who survived the ordeal) find an antedote for the jab and they turn us back to humans by nullifying the effects of the jab. There you go - you live more than those who did not take it.

But then you;ll get the swine flu because the jab aint working in you and you might die (duh death again) but by this time decades have passed and they invented a new secure jab - so you're safe now. You decide to take it, walk out, and, then you're run over(dead!)

S. Scicluna

Jan 9th 2010, 15:20

Much ado about nothing! I took the vaccine. I now feel safe and secure from this potentially deadly illness. I move on. End of story!

C. Farrugia

Jan 9th 2010, 15:12

Maybe...pregnant women should read this before they decide to take the vaccine. Time flies but nothing is forgotten. A vaccine, produced so quickly and without being thoroughly tested as it SHOULD have, can give similar results. (not necessarily the same type of deformities or handicaps).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

J. F. Grech

Jan 9th 2010, 12:45

l. vella and J. Colafato
To give advice to pregnant women to TAKE THE VACINE is irresponsible. I have given birth to four children and you can be assured that the last thing any pregnant woman wants to introduce to her body are drugs or vaccines where that is any kind of question as to their safety. And there is question in this case - as a new vaccine there is no assurance of full safety and the medical "experts" have had to backtrack many times in the past about the safety of drugs and vaccines deemed "safe" years later. The effects on unborn children can not be predicted until the "experts" have observed these children for many years after birth. When pregnant woman "take the jab" they are part of the experimental group. As a pregnant woman-eat right, sleep well, practice good hygiene and stay away from those you know to be sick.Something we should all do. Keep the vaccines for those who are truly at risk due to existing physical ailments or elderly. Risk is part of life; rather than live fearfully of the next illness - be proactive and practice healthy living.

Jason Coleiro

Jan 9th 2010, 09:10

check this out people. i hope someone will take action and not be the sheep we are.


http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2510:qthe-citizens-have-wonq-says-dr-marc-girard-victory-in-swine-flu-information-war-made-possible-by-internet&catid=41:highlighted-news&Itemid=105&lang=fr

marika mifsud

Jan 9th 2010, 07:15

Many people say they have/had flu when really it was a feverish cold.
Believe me when you really have flu it's a serious and debilitating illness. When I had flu some 20 years ago I had to take 4 weeks off work, and even when I returned I still felt lousy. Nowadays apart from being 20 years older I also have diabetes and I don't know how I'd end up if I had to catch the flu now.
Many countries starting giving th jab in September (maybe that's why the UK has said the number of new cases is declining) and our Health Dept decided to wait till January to check out any possible side effects. There was critiscism then that there was danger in postponing the vaccine for so long !

R Muscat

Jan 9th 2010, 00:51

Take the organic mineral Selenium (Selenomethionine) 100ug for women and 200 ug for men with vitamins A,C and E and this will boost the immune system which in turn protects against viruses and bacteria simple effective and as our bodies were made to be.

Food for thought since the 70s animal feed has been supplemented with minerals and vitamins to ward off disease in crowded conditions!!! Colds and Flu abound in winter when humans live in crowded conditions!!!

c. gatt

Jan 8th 2010, 19:21

Read what the actual insert says that comes along with the vaccine package... you will be shocked. And then all this propaganda that the vaccines have been tested and are safe... bullocks my dear friends! to all you people saying that all these youtube videos are rubbish, how naive can you be!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r051fXtfng8

G Barbara

Jan 8th 2010, 19:10

@ Marcelle Cini
The health authourities are saying that the vaccine is "safe"....just as driving a car or going on a plane is "safe", just like antibiotics are "safe", just like doing a hernia repair at Mater Dei is "safe"
All of the above may, and have killed people.....but have saved a gazillion more than they killed!!!

The same goes with vaccines. Until now: Swine Flu 4 - Vaccine 0....lets hope that it remains that way!

Side effects...surely....Myself: Sore arm for 2 days....A friend of mine was slightly unwell for a day.

7 of my friends who had swine flu......a miserable 4 or 5 days with fever,shivers, sore throat and muscle pains

A Cassar

Jan 8th 2010, 19:03

@ Marcelle Cini
First of all the 104 people died in Japan after vaccine, not necessarily "due to" vaccine. We have lots of unexplained deaths in Malta every single month. Of course those who die in Autumn/winter might have taken flu vaccine recently, those who die in August would not have had vaccine.

But lets say that all these 104 died because of vaccine....and 1000 lives were saved by vaccine.....it is not 104 deaths by vaccine but 896 lives saved!!!!

Yes most of health care workers have not YET taken vaccine....but nearly all doctors did. And judging from the queue at the ICC, soon most will have taken it.

@P. Coleiro
Yes the billions spent every single week by the pharmaceutical industry has saved millions of lives, enabling YOU to live most probably past the age of 80yrs, it has cured cancers and previously incurable diseases.

I'm sure that if God forbid you fall sick you will be running off to Mater Dei.....and most probably, thanks to the money that makes the world go round your life would be saved!!!

Then....you will surely get it!!! I hope at least

marcelle cini

Jan 8th 2010, 18:31

Moira my point was to prove that deaths have occurred because of the vaccine and not as stated by our health authorities . So what is your point ?104 people is not enough for you? @to A Cassar 1); Most of the 75% of health workers who have not taken vaccine YET, have not done so because they have researched the problem.' So what do you mean?

P. Coleiro

Jan 8th 2010, 18:21

F. D'amato Money makes the world go round my friend... money! But apparently you don't get it.

F D'Amato

Jan 8th 2010, 17:49

Thousands of scientists, thousands of PhDs, Billions of dollars dedicated only to one thing...The INFLUENZA virus! All desperately working to avoid the great shift (mutation) to a deadly strain similar to the 1916 Spanish Influenza virus which killed millions worlwide. Then comes the presumptious fool, spends a few minutes doing a google/youtube search on his laptop.....and he totally contradicts the experts!!! Thank God it is not the fools who make the world go round!!!!!

J Colafato

Jan 8th 2010, 17:43

In California 8% of pregant women who were hospitalised with H1N1 DIED!!!!! N Engl J Med. 2010 Jan 7;362(1):27-35. These are facts. Statistics. Not a YouTube video, or a Google search!!! Normally doctors never go ahead encouraging pregnant women to take medicines or vaccines...but this time the stakes are so high...that they were the FIRST group to be offered vaccine. If you're pregnant PLEASE TAKE THE VACCINE

Gorg Bonello

Jan 8th 2010, 17:34

Funny to think that: The moment that any of the people who will not take the advice of the experts and won't take the vaccine get really sick....they will rush to hospital straight into the arms of the very same people to be treated!!!.......or would they be treated by the quacks that advise them not to tak vaccines??? Or by Dr Youtube???

James Said

Jan 8th 2010, 17:09

@Joe E Galea How PATHETIC!!! 1)"I have read a lot and up to now no serious study has been made to ensure that this vaccine has no side effects".......well you have NOT read a lot...because if you had you would know that serious studies are MANDATORY for a vaccine to be licenced. And studies have shown that like every vaccine there ARE side-effects...but by are far less than the benefits 2)"....rather than risk becoming disabled for the rest of my life"....wherever did you get the idea that with swine flu you cannot remain diabled for the rest of you life???? 3)"Those wh got the swineflu in Malta recovered without taking flu jabs."....are you living on another planet or are you joking??? 4 died till now, about a dozen ended up in ITU 4) "Mario Galea and his jab, he is not a scientific proof that the jab has no side effects." ....who on earth ever said that the jab has no side effects??? And who on earth ever said that Mario Galea is "scientific proof"? The millions vaccinated and the thousands dead with swine flu are the "scientific proof"

Robert Galea

Jan 8th 2010, 16:58

@Keith D'Amato
Your video shows a extremely rare side effect of most vaccines. It occurs in less than one in 10million vaccines. But it happens. And when it happens, it is a real tragedy!

On the other hand the very same thing happens much more frequently with viral infections. So this poor girl was unlucky enough to end up in this situation because of the vaccine....while many others ended up in the same situation because they did not take the vaccine.
What would I choose??? The option that gives me a lesser chance of getting what this lady has...that is the JAB!!!!!

My neurology colleagues see loads of cases similar to this girl, always after some mild viral infection. But most don't ever recall a case after a vaccine. So it is a matter of risk...would you prefer a 1 in 10 million chance or a 1 in 100,000 chance (as till now we have 4 deaths in 400,000 pop). When a tragedy like this happens, we instantly forget the scores of people who unknown to them would be dead had they not been vaccinated!!

George Debono

Jan 8th 2010, 16:55

1 Joe E Galea

Re - I ahve read and seen people afflicted by serious side effects like dystonia, autism, etc, after taking the jab.

Well, depending what you read - you get this kind of nonsense. The autism story is old hat and, as far as I remember the doctor or scientist who made the claim that the triple vaccine was a cause of autism (MMR) on cooked data was totally discredited.

G

A Cassar

Jan 8th 2010, 16:39

@ Marcelle Cini
1) Most of the 75% of health workers who have not taken vaccine YET, have not done so because they have researched the problem. Nearly all doctors have had the vaccine. Many who have not taken vaccine are porters, cleaner etc whose medical knowledge is zilc!!! I know about dozens of medical colleagues who have not taken the vaccine because they already were sick with swine flu

2) Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, though very qualified to give an opinion is only one of a very small minority. If 100 people say that they saw a red car, while 1 says that it was blue....who, instinctively would you believe.

On the other hand, any serious concern like the one voiced by Dr Wodarg is taken very seriously. WHO is constantly vigilant to make sure that benefit of vaccine outweighs the risk. At the moment, it seems it does....

There are two risks, the risks of dying from swine flu, and the risks associated with the jab.
If I had to bet on who wins in Valletta vs Juventus....I know where to put my money.....but it doesn't mean I can't lose

Moira Heath

Jan 8th 2010, 16:07

@Marcelle Cini

Regarding your point about Japan, I actually looked up the story as it sounded quite an interesting fact and this is what it said in its entirety (and I'm copying and pasting):

31/12/2009
"The ministry said postvaccination deaths have totaled 104, roughly 80 percent of whom are people aged 70 or older who had chronic diseases or disorders, while nearly 1,900 cases of side effects had been reported from medical institutions. It estimates 14.92 million people have been vaccinated so far nationwide."

That's 104 out of 14.92 million people !! In Malta we are what, 400,000? You do the probability calculations, I can't be bothered.

A Cassar

Jan 8th 2010, 15:44

@D Schembri

The video you just linked to is made by a group who are trying to sue a vaccine company as their children developed autism. The doctor who started all this was struck off the medical register in the UK, as his unfounded allegations cost many lives of children in the UK who subsequently died from the measles. He was being paid by the parents to spread these allegations. Studies involving hundreds of millions of patients have proved him wrong.

Any serious research you do leads to one answer, that it is safer to be vaccinated than not to be vaccinated!

V Agius

Jan 8th 2010, 15:26

Can anyone tell me the risks of the follows:

a. Getting hit by a reckless driver?
b. Eating chemicals from the fruit and veg that I eat?
c. getting some chemical from the meat that I eat?
d the passive cigatette smoike that I inhaled from the past ?
e. the chemicals in burnt petrol/diesel in the street?
f. getting strained eyes from too much You-tube viewing:)
g. consuming mercury (+others) from the fish from our contaminated seas.

Lets eliminate ALL THESE, THEN WE CAN LOOK AT 1:1,000,000 risks

Dominic Vella

Jan 8th 2010, 15:01

No indeed Gulf War Syndrome was not liked to squalene and it's great that there were independent studies. The first Gulf War multiple vaccine included pertussis along with buponic plague and anthrax, not because they felt the soldiers would get whooping cough, but because it was an effective adjuvant for the other vaccines. i.e. it enhanced the immune response to the plague and anthrax. The armed forces never admitted there was a problem with putting pertussis in the batch, but it was withdrawn from the cocktail in the second gulf war. Such is the mystery surrounding the detail of precisely how vaccines work. There's nothing wrong with a bit of mystery though so long as we are told. My son once had an asthma attack and was give magnesium sulphate. I asked how it worked and the doctor said there were theories, but they weren't certain how yet. They just know it works. I liked his frankness.

marcelle cini

Jan 8th 2010, 15:01

The parliament motion was introduced by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, former SPD Member of the German Bundestag and now chairman of the Health Committee of PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe). Wodarg is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, a specialist in lung disease and environmental medicine, who considers the current “pandemic” Swine Flu campaign of the WHO to be “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the Century.”[1]

everybody will make there own choices however it is fair to say we are not really being informed about the other side of the coin.

Keith D'Amato

Jan 8th 2010, 14:58

@ D Schembri - Thanks
@ A Cassar - I did not say I wont take the vaccine because of the video! I've taken my decision long before i knew about the youtube post. I only received that email with the link and posted it here! Learn to read...

N Darmanin

Jan 8th 2010, 14:42

@ R Sultana

I took the injection...though please note that there were many hospital admissions due to the injection - my mother for example, 5 min after she took the injection her blood pressure rose to alarming levels and we were sent to hospital from the health clinic. At the clinic they were insisting that it could not have been the injection - but once at the hospital they confirmed that it is! this was last Sat - till today my mum is still trying to control her blood pressure - but it is now controllable!

Gerard Cassar

Jan 8th 2010, 14:39

Why is the information about the swine flu handed over to those who receive the vaccine after the event (the jab) and not before.It should be handed before so to allow people to know exactly what they are going through. There is no sens to hand it after receiving the vaccine.
Is it a precaution not to alarm people. I heard comments that if one knew the consequences as explanied in the hand out, he/she would not have accepted to receive the vaccin.

D Schembri

Jan 8th 2010, 14:33

@ A Cassar

You tube is not the only source of information, yet that is not the point the doctors and researchers who appear in this clip are not actors. I suggest you look up further sources for your own reference before trying to ridicule people who have tried to educate themselves about H1N1 vacination.

I have my opinion and you have yours but at least i do not insinuate that their is something wrong with you!

marcelle cini

Jan 8th 2010, 14:25

@R Sultana In another newspaper it reported that only 25% of medical health workers took the vaccine.
Do you think it was because they are watching too many you tube videos.

In Japan 104 people have died after taking the jab and over 1000 had side effects. By the way this was in Japan Times online
And who knows how many more ?

C. Farrugia

Jan 8th 2010, 14:07

In a similar article here re the vaccination yesterday, it was stated that children under six months are not being vaccinated as a safety precaution.

So, I ask...how does that make the vaccine SAFE for a developing foetus??!

P James

Jan 8th 2010, 14:02

More people die on the roads than swine flu. I think it's more important to invest the money to fix the roads first. How many people died this year (only 8days) or have had serious injuries from driving compared to swine flu?

N. Azzopardi

Jan 8th 2010, 13:56

This is not a political issue but a global concern. Just look at this site to see those people who already had the vaccine what they have to say. Most of them say they wish they would have researched better and never got the shot. http://diseases-viruses.suite101.com/article.cfm/side_effects_of_swine_flu_vaccine

J. Debono

Jan 8th 2010, 13:51

Many people are claiming they have done their homework by doing their research on the swine flu vaccine.

However they seem to have stopped half way through their homework!

It is important to do check about possible side-effects of the vaccine, however you have to COMPARE this with the chance of getting the real illness and its side-effects.

Regarding H1N1 vaccine, there is a lot of controversy, simply because there is a small chance of GB syndrome, and funnily enough many people are failing to mention that there is a higher chance of contracting GB from the illness itself rather than from the vaccine.

To make a long story short, studies and experience with other vaccines show that without any doubt, the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh the risks, and that is why non profit MEDICAL organizations like WHO, Public Health of many European countries etc. are advising that everybody takes the influenza vaccine.

In this country everybody is free to do as he pleases, and I respect all those who do not want to take the vaccine, but please refrain from discouraging others from taking the vaccine if you do not have medical back-up.

Fabien Sant Fournier

Jan 8th 2010, 13:38

why isn't the public more aware of Vitamin D and the flu?! google it, have a quick peruse!!

Joe Brincat

Jan 8th 2010, 13:33

A question which comes to mind is whether the cold chain for the vaccine was broken. From what I saw from the news, the vaccine was unloaded from the plane in boxes wrapped in tape. No cooling devises were seen. Where is the vaccine stored? How is the vaccine distributed to health centres? Is the temperature constantly kept at 4-6 degrees celsius? If the cold chain is broken, the vaccine is rendered useless! The health authorities should rest our minds about this.

Dr anton borg

Jan 8th 2010, 13:10

Marco Borg and I Vella,
I would treat the comments by Dr Blaylock with a healthy dose os scepticism. He talks about squalene, a shark and dogfish oil derivative which is thought to be one of the reasons why the mediterranean diet is healthy. It also probably reduces cancer risk. Dr Blaylock makes a number of allegations against squalene which are at best extremely tenuous, and, at worst, of a similar order to Dr Wakefield's notorious comments about the MMR vaccine. Squalene did NOT form part of the anthrax vaccine implicated in Gulf War Syndrome; extensive independant studies on the vaccine failed to confirm an initial suspicion that it was "sneaked into" the vaccine.
The H1N1 Vaccine is as safe as any other vaccine; a tiny number of people will have allergic reactions to it. The bottom line is that a significant number of healthy children and pregnant women have died in Europoe of swine flu. The vaccine is there to be had. Remember that tamiflu does NOT save lives; it has a very weak effect on H1N1. Young people have no natural immunity against swine flu.

M. Debono

Jan 8th 2010, 12:45

@ D. Schembri

You are tackling this issue from the wrong direction.

NO ONE is saying that the swine flu vaccine has no side-effects, but this is the case of weighing the benefits of taking or not taking it.

The serious side effects as depicted by the site below on youtube is 1:1,000,000 and that is the worst that can happen - also note that this can happen in a much higher percentage if you are infected by H1N1!
In Malta where the population is not even half a million - already 4 deaths were registered - one of which in a 32year old healthy person.

YES there is side-effects from taking the vaccine, BUT not taking it, the side-effects (or the lack of if you're dead) are much worse!!!!

R Sultana

Jan 8th 2010, 12:41

4 deaths from swine flu in Malta to date
Scores of ITU admissions
Dozens of hospital admissions
Hundreds or thousands of days of sick leave in bed

0 deaths from flu jab
0 ITU admission
0 hosptal admission
Some local soreness or fever here and there

You have to be realy stupid not to take the vaccine

A Cassar

Jan 8th 2010, 12:38

@D Schembri, Keith D'Amato, d.cassar

There must be something really wrong with you if you take medical advice on YOUTUBE!!!!!!!!

Marco Borg

Jan 8th 2010, 12:37

Also check out the following on you tube:

Dr. Leonard Horowitz on The Alex Jones Show 1/3:What Big Pharma Doesn't Want You To Know About!!

A Cassar

Jan 8th 2010, 12:35

@Marco Borg

You said it in your first sentence "I am no expert"......and it shows

If you were an epidemiologist with a PhD in epidemiology, you would come to a learned conclusion. A literature review would clearly conclude that taking the vaccine is the logical thing to do, you cannot just pick the very very few doctors (who are usually not epidemiologists....eg a neurosugeon) say, and ignore the thousands of other experts!!

Gerard Cassar

Jan 8th 2010, 12:34

To help people decide on whether to take the vaccine open the following web site address.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgyakGAddM

Marco Borg

Jan 8th 2010, 12:21

To I.Vella... the pregnant woman.

I am no expert, I am no doctor but I like to do my research and then make a decision based upon what I learn. I suggest you and other pregnant women do that. Look up DR. RUSSEL BLAYLOCK on the net who is a top nuerosurgeon. I was baffled with what he had to say regarding giving this vaccine to pregnant women, children and people in general. I made my decision not to take the shot many months ago, precisely because I like to do my personal homework instead of just hearing people say how safe it is!

J. Xuereb

Jan 8th 2010, 12:03

There's so much fuss about this flu! I think that health authorities should teach the public how to invest in a strong immune system instead of all these frightening declarations. I've been taking natural vitamin supplements since before summer and I have never felt this healthy before, not even a cold!! The health authorities are in duty to teach the public out there how to eat healthy and maintain a strong immune system, without having the need to intoxicate their bodies with medicine!! Sorry but the health system in Malta is still behind in its approach!!!

D Schembri

Jan 8th 2010, 11:53

If the building is known to be dangerous would you walk into it Christian??? or even take your child with you??

This is not a silly opinion of my I have reseached H1N1 to the best of my ability and my decision was not taken due to me being paranoid but due to facts!

This is one of the links I watched, please note Doctors and researchers disagree with injection, are they paranoid??

There is plenty more if you have the time to look into it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1K74Tnrrok

Best regards

g.c.Forte

Jan 8th 2010, 11:52

@ Joe E Galea.......When I criticized ( and that is often ) this government, when wasting our money on projects that does not be viable ( always in my opinion ) for the country, it will be fair to say when the government spend our money for a good cause, especially when concerning our health. I do not see any political affair in it. At the end of the day,it is the government ( who ever he is ) responsibility of how to use our money. As many of the public are giving their opinion whether they take the vaccine or not, I wanted to give my opinion, that`s all. My question remains....If the government done nothing regarding this issue,what would be the public opinion ? I hope that I do not seems talking politics.

l.vella

Jan 8th 2010, 11:45

Im 14 weeks pregnant & went to take the vaccine. At the clinic they were uncertain whether i need a doctor's note or not. I decided not to take it and called my gyne who suggested i wait till 16 weeks. Confused? yes i am. Many pregnant woman are uncertain

Keith D'Amato

Jan 8th 2010, 11:42

A lot has been going on about the securness of the vaccine. I personally won't take it.

An email has been going around about the Vaccine. Does anyone think this is true??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7k0e3kpoxE

Joe E Galea

Jan 8th 2010, 11:40

@Karl Abela: So let's think with your brain: If the flu jab was imported by a Labour government then you would be the first to go against it. ......Simply pathetic!!

Who involves politics in this issue needs to get a life asap.

A Camilleri

Jan 8th 2010, 11:32

It seems that the Health authorities are concerned about this state of affairs for two reasons.

One concern is, and rightly so, because people do not trust the advice that is forthcoming and consequently are taking a negative attitude resulting in refusing to take the vaccine.

The second is that, as another consequence of the above, the amount of vaccines that have been ordered seems too high. This turns out from the excess amount in vaccines that have as yet not been administered.

My wife and I, who are an elderly couple,have a yellow card because of a chronic disease. However, when we went to the Health Clinic for the vaccine we were told that our type of chronic disease was not one that required us to take the vaccine at this stage.

Now I ask, why were we refused this vaccine when there is enough stock of this vaccine to be administered to persons like us.

No wonder then that there is going to be a surplus of vaccines and a headache for the Health Authorities. In my opinion the vaccine should be administered to a wider spectrum of people who require it.

Christian Sciberras

Jan 8th 2010, 11:24

D Schembri - That's called hard luck. Do you realize each time you enter a building there's a probability of it collapsing on top of you? Would this make anyone not walk into a building anymore (speaking of paranoid)?
Someone with such bad luck might as well die of an infection with h1n1, or kept closed up. Hardly a solution.

Regards,
Christian Sciberras.

D Schembri

Jan 8th 2010, 11:11

Ther is a lot to consider before one opt's for H1N1 injection. Side effects are not to be dismissed and that does not make a person a whinner as stated by KARL ABELA especially where children are concerned.

It is true that people suffered side effects are a small percentage compared to people who had no side effects, but what if my child is one of the unlucky one's would I be called a whinner then???????

Karl Abela

Jan 8th 2010, 10:54

'Are you afraid of the vaccine?' What sort of question is this? Why so negative? Why seed doubt on such an important issue? Are we all doctors all of a sudden? Do we all pretend to be more expert than the experts on this virus?

All those that I know who took the vaccine were up and running after a few hours feeling tired and some soreness on the injection area. Thats it!

And to all those whiners please stop sobbing, some people just get a kick out of whining about everything. I suspect that their political inclination has got something to do with it. GET A LIFE AND ENJOY IT!!!

Joe E Galea

Jan 8th 2010, 10:33

@G C Forte & R Zammit: This is not a political issue. no one criticsed the government on it. This is a health issue which one should evaluate on his personal knowledge.

I have read a lot and up to now no serious study has been made to ensure that this vaccine has no side effects. I ahve read and seen people afflicted by serious side effects like dystonia, autism, etc, after taking the jab. So no thank you for me. I made up my mind. I'd rather get the flu and get over it like any other flu rather than risk becoming disabled for the rest of my life. If then I die because of swine flu it's hard luck. I am not afraid of dying as I lived a good life up to now. Those wh got the swineflu in Malta recovered without taking flu jabs.

What makes me more skeptic is the hype the media is making about it and all the drama shows showing MP's taking the jab. I don't care a dime about Mario Galea and his jab, he is not a scientific proof thta the jab has no side effects. Why all this craze?

d.cassar

Jan 8th 2010, 09:39

NO THANK YOU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7k0e3kpoxE

R Zammit

Jan 8th 2010, 09:30

I cant understand whats all the worry in taking this 'blessed' vaccine. Just go and get injected, you only get a sore hand nothing else. I took it last Monday and I am strong as ever. We should be thankful to the government. This fear of taking the jab is simply nonsense. Also may I remind you that the Swine Flu can get pretty nasty...I know a person who was recovered in ITU just a few days ago due to its complications. Thank god and thanks to the professionalism of the ITU staff the person has now made progress.

g.c.Forte

Jan 8th 2010, 09:24

Why God created us to be the most controversial people in the world ( in my opinion ). We divide our selves on nearly every thing. At this moment it is the vaccine that are separating us. My believes in a political way, I do not support this government,but on this issue I believe that the government had invested wisely our money. I have had the vaccine,and deep down I feel safe and my mind is at rest. To day we came to a situation, that if some body sneeze next to you, you start worrying, so what are you waiting for......................

Mike Farrugia

Jan 8th 2010, 09:15

Can anyone guarantee that the next aspirin tablet you take, will not kill you 10 years from now? NO!
Same goes to the vaccine. No one can give any guarantee on anything. You have to take the decision after evaluating what you will go through if you get the flu and the side-effects you might get from the vaccine.
Do not expect anyone to take the decision for you.
I took it and so did my son. I had no reaction but my son suffered a headache for 24 hrs.