Sorry, another Question about Flu Shots

[Cris N]

I've heard there is vaccine with thimerasol and vaccine without. I think the individual syringes do not but the little bottles of vaccine from which several doses are drawn has the thimerasol.

This is what I heard as well.

 

[bvdr]

Not only as a kid but where I worked lots of the instruments had mercury in them. It was common to see mercury spilled on the ground. Again boys will be boys and we played with the mercury. I'd been working almost 20 years before EPA was invented. Later after EPA 'saved' us and we stopped playing it.

In fact most everything we produced and the materials we used in the process also wound up EPA's list.... I'm still here today after working and breathing all that dangerous stuff for 32 years.

My sisters and I used to fight over who got to play with the mercury. I think we had a high rate of breakage with our thermometers. We used to see how many little balls we could make and have great fun.

One of my daughter-in-laws is just recovering from a reaction to the pneumonia vaccine. She has a few congenital immune deficiencies which complicate decisions. She ran a fever of greater than 103 for days. She is on steroids and also an antibiotic in case there is something else also going on. She had a tetanus shot the same day but in another arm. She had swelling at both sites but the pneumonia site was to the extent she couldn't raise her arm enough to shave. She has been advised not to have either flu shot this year. Amy is getting better now and has been without fever for over 24 hours.

I've had my flu shot but the H1N1 is not available in our area yet.