U.S. health officials say the flu season is hitting particularly hard this year. Did you get the flu shot?

There are better natural flu prevention things to take that won't kill you

No and it's too expensive. Like a lot of things. Especially for something that I might maybe need that might maybe work for a flu that constantly mutates to a degree that might render it ineffective anyway. But I don't need to go outside in the cold weather anyway so I may be fine.

every year late September

Having only had the flu only a few times in the last 40-50 years I doubt I get it.

Influenza can kill you.

twice at 14 and at 27 almost killed me both times

1.) Building an immune system is healthy and NECESSARY. 2.) Flu shots do MUCH more harm than good, and I personally know of 4 people who became permanently disabled because of additives in flu shots. EDUCATE YOURSELF AND LOVED ONES ON THE INGREDIENTS!

yes in December, and I understand they have run out of the vaccine.

Your only putting yourself and those around you at risk if you don't get vaccinated. There is no reason not to get it.

There might be one...

Some vaccines can cause narcolepsy.

http://health.yahoo.net/news/...

They say never say never ...
I never will.

When it first became available. October I think.

But I had the flu anyway during the Christmas break.

Not gonna get one and you can't make me. XD

All of us did. We do every year and knock on wood....we haven't gotten the Flu.

My immune system needs flu germs to practice on every once in a while.

I don't like needles. do they have pill?

They have a nasal spray.

Never have, never will.

I don't trust what they put in those vaccines, it's toxic! No way will I ever get one...

they no longer use the mercury compound in the shot...its safer now than in the past...dont play russian roullete with your life. Enfluenza can be extremely deadly as the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1917 proved. Now that you had a good laugh. Get that flu shot so you dont sneeze on the food in my favourite buffet restaurant. Don't sling your snot; get a shot.

I still don't trust what they put in them, "safer"? I don't believe or trust their definition of "safe". Have you read the paperwork that comes with these so called safe vaccines? I will not get another vaccine, no matter how much they try to scare us or threaten us into getting one.

After doing a little online research, I find that they are still using mercury in vaccines, they are calling it thimerosal, it's a mercury derivative, they are saying it's safe, BUT they still say that fluoride is safe too, I'll not even go into how toxic fluoride is...

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protec...

Wretha

Thimerosal has caused Tourette Disorder and tics in 2 people I know.

For the love of god! everything is toxic. Toxicity is a universal material property. Even water will poison you if you drink enough of it.

So does that mean everyone should just give up and accept any and all toxins without question? I'm smart enough not to drink enough water to be toxic, I also choose not to put other toxins in my body, I can't avoid ALL of them, but I can certainly choose not to purposely put more of them into my body, and the flu shot or any other vaccine are some of the things I choose not to expose myself to.

Wretha

As a healthcare worker, it is required. But It is facinating to me that in almost every season we get the shot and the new strain of virus arrives a month later without a vaccine until that virus has run its course.

I don't blame others for NOT taking the current trend vaccine for fear of hybriding the virus into something else, but the shot does help keep most a little healthier to get us through another year!

CDC propaganda.

An excellent doctor of osteopathy told me that 5000 IU of vitamin D3, probiotics, garlic daily and washing your hands like a fiend work far better than any flu shot ever invented. Since I have been following his regimen, I have never been sick in the wintertime, not even with a cold.



The flu shot is a "best guess" about which influenza virus will makes the rounds each winter and whether or no you meet that particular virus, you might still become ill even having taken the shot. And they contain mercury, formaldehyde and other unmentionable nasties that are toxic to your immune & nervous systems.



Of course, each individual should make his/her own decision, and I wouldn't criticize anyone who takes the shot, but be informed before you do so.

Good advice.....

Osteopathy? That sounds like one of those alternative medicine deals. Of course he's against flu shots he wants you to be what he's selling.

Not true. If you knew what a doctor of osteopathy is, you will realize you statement is unfounded. They are very similar to an M.D. and are not primarily advocates of alternative medicine. They can and do prescribe all the same meds that an M.D. does and are authorized to do everything that an M.D. can do. My D.O. has never suggested an alternative med to treat a medical condition and in fact has increased the traditional meds that,my former M.D. was prescribing me because I wasn't taking enough for them to work well.

Read this to find out about Doctors of Osteopathy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

and since I know that some scoff at wikipedia, and in case you are one of them, here is one from the Mayo Clinic:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/hea...

Every year my hubby gets the shot and nearly every year he gets sick. No thank you.
I have not had one in nearly 10 years now and I am doing just fine.

I let my immune system do the heavy lifting. And since I have two nurses in my immediate family, I get lots of passive innoculation anyway.

When the government encourages people to take a drug I don't trust it. I'll take my chances with the flu thanx

Supreme Cosmic Power, Scopo, Center's idea is that you should know for sure that it is flu vaccine that they intend to inject in you and not another genetically, man-made, flesh- eating, time-activating virus that will suddenly rear its ugly head in 2-5 yrs and bite you in the butt! Once bitten, twice shy. I am taking a secret supplement and not sick of any flu anymore! Thank you for the flu shot offer!

I got the flu shot in November2012. I got the Flu on January 7th , 2013. told I got the other flu not covered by by flu shot. It's rough.

yaduyadiyada, the same ol story year after year so that pharmaseuticals can earn a dirty buck off injecting you with mercury. i already got the flu just a week from christmas, YES it SUCKS, it sucks big time, but two or three days of throwing up sure as hell beats the mushy brain 40 years down the road. or autism, or other complications mercury causes to the body.