Tell me about this cost. a 30 year old woman, mother of 3, wife and nurse, veteran half marathoner and triathlete, given a H1N1 vaccination thru her work at a Hospital in IA on a Friday, by Sunday she was airlifted to the university of IA hospitals and on life support for a week, and spent 2 more in the hospital after that. One year later, she still has motor pattern , abnormalities, can not perform coordianted running patterns anymore, and it took months of therapy to have normal speech again. Wanna calculate that cost???? the cause, anaphylactic shock from the vaccine causing severe respitory distress and almost killed her. Tell me about fear mongering and cost, I bet I know someone with a much different opinion than yours, and a lot different experience.

Fearmongering. The flu virus is among the safest in the world, given to literally billions annually, and preventing millions upon millions of infections. Those not only cost society money in terms of lost productivity (or learning time, or parental care, or medications), they also post a risk of fatality to vulnerable populations such as infants, the elderly, and the immune-compromised. Get a flu vaccination, if not for yourself, then for your co-workers, your grandparents, your newborn nephew, and everybody they know, too.
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The idea that H1N1 was created in a lab is utter nonsense, and you should be ashamed for spreading it. The flu is a hugely competitive virus constantly breeding itself into new strains. It's all advanced science can do just to keep up with that.

So that virus will be 'misting' through the air in all those schools? Stay away!!!

truth1.....and parents are powerless to do anything about it.

Not true. You just have to be creative. In the above comment I meant to say my grand-kids won't be getting it, & I know that for a fact.

Home Schooling, keeping your kids home the day of the vaccine, Don't signing the release.. Enough parents make a statement, & stick together.. your kids just might have a chance. I refuse to take the flu shot now. After seeing what happened to my dad the day after he got the H1N1 last year, I'll never get it. He had severe chest pain for almost a month, & other health problems he had before the shot, got worst shortly after the shot. I know of a 16 yr old girl in California who almost died a week after getting the shot. I'll give to the fact that maybe only a percentage of people who get the shot "have side effects from the H1N1". But right now this vaccine isn't worth risking my children's or grandchildren lives.

There's no way my kids are getting it... I no longer trust drug companies to do whats right for patients anymore. Call me a conspiracy nut, but I've seen more proof the H1N1 is garbage created by people with agenda's. The first namely I'll come right out & mention is, Baxter.com.

Did you guys know they're not putting the H1N1 vaccine inside our flu shots now. Yeah.. We didn't just run out in masses to get it last year, & the powers that be think we didn't go get the H1N1 shot because we couldn't get to a Injection site. They could care less we didn't want it. Because of that my dad's gotten it twice. The H1N1 injection last year, & got it with his flu shot this year. Google "H1N1 Squalene". Make up your own mine, but be educated. Don't just take the Governments, or Medical Professions word for it.. espically when your dealing with your child.

FluMist ingredients (courtesy of the CDCs Vaccine Excipient Table):
Chick Kidney Cells, Egg Protein, Gentamicin Sulfate, Monosodium Glutamate, Sucrose Phosphate Glutamate Buffer.
Gentamicin sulfate - main toxic effects (courtesy of inchem.org):
"The main toxic effects are vestibular damage, deafness and renal dysfunction," the symptoms of which are "loss of hearing, dizziness, vertigo, ataxia, nausea, vomiting and renal impairment. Other toxic features are muscular paralysis and respiratory depression."

Symptoms and effects like that almost make a reaction to the ingredient of monosodium glutamate(MSG), which makes me break out in hives, seem like an appetizer.

.....and parents are powerless to do anything about it.

Unfortunately, taxpayers are held hostage to "schools" that pull stunts like this.

All EXCELLENT posts!!!

Corrected headline:
Program gives flu to students as vacine makers collect the profits at the taxpayers expense.

must be a shortage on lab rats these days, they're now using elementary school children for experiements. How neat. a simple search of the companies own literature will tell these "state officials" the virus is shed in heavier amounts for 3 days post exposure and declines and is done shedding by day 10. Not much different than a normal person who actually has the flu

I really do not believe that enough study has been done to warrant giving the nasal version of the flu vaccine to children.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/dow...

"In theory, the potential exists for those children to get the flu from other children who had just received the live virus in FluMist, Haeger said."......Yes. This is true of any "LIVE" vaccine. School is not a place to be forcing the issue on other kids who can't be exposed to this vaccine.

"Haeger spoke with state officials, who said they couldn't find anything to indicate that students who receive FluMist would infect others. The vaccines will be given away from the classrooms, so unvaccinated kids won't be exposed to a child sneezing right after receiving the vaccine, he said"........OK, well have they found anything stating that students receiving FluMist would NOT infect others? No? How long should one group be kept away from the other group? What is "right after"? Who will make that decision? Again, school is not the place for this.

If parents want their kids vaccinated, give them a free voucher at school instead & have them go to an appropriate place (medical facility) for a free shot.

You can find the Vaccine Information Statement here:

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/def...

Then click on "Live Intranasal Flu"