Monday, November 26, 2012

Take the flu shot!


A myth I want to debunk today, the thimerosal in the Flu Shot does not cause autism as it is broken down into simpler products quickly while in the blood stream. Thimerosal, which is a mercury based preservative, does not exist in ANY child hood vaccines.

The flu shot has an effectiveness of 70% to 90% (FightFlu, 2012).
http://www.fightflu.ca/shot-vaccin-eng.php

Btw, the flu shot can give you negative side effects, I myself had muscle aches, felt feverish, and my lymph nodes are still mega swollen and I had my shot like 2 weeks ago!

About vaccines in general. Effectiveness.

Vaccines are an important function in today's society. They have been proven to work! The small pox vaccine, for example, was given to people world wide within EVERY country (USA + Russia united) and eradicated the disease from the face of the planet. The only live samples exist only in research laboratories today and because of vaccines the people in the world have literally one less thing to worry about, even if the virus is released from the laboratories there are actually national reserves full of small pox vaccinations ready to be distributed at the national level.

The measles vaccine is another great example of how vaccines have been extremely effective in disease control as the number of cases since the implementation of such vaccinations have resulted in numbers such as these.

"350,000 per year before 1963 to less than 2000 per year in 1995," as sourced from http://immunize.cpha.ca/en/diseases-vaccines/measles.aspx


Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Wordle


Wordle: Ramblings of a Student Nurse Wordle 

So here's a Wordle that basically sum up everything on my blog!

I plan to make another one in the future and post these side by side to see the changes :D