Flu Vaccine Side Effects - Are Vaccines Safe?

The debate on vaccines is an old one and many questions have been raised about their safety. Some of those questions are:

Do vaccines contain constituents that can harm the body?

Are vaccines safe for new born babies?

Are they a cause of autism in many children and some adults?

These questions and many more are raising the curiosity and concern of many. Vaccines so widely used and accepted everywhere in the world are now a subject of major controversy.

While some even claiming that vaccines can actually cause more harm rather than bring improvement to the immune system which helps create a barrier for the H1N1, or any other virus in question.

So let's look at some of the key points made by some researchers on why vaccines should be avoided and some of the flu vaccine side effects that might be present:

1. Vaccines are made of chemicals and harmful substances that are in fact poisonous to the body, an example is thimerosal which is a derivative of mercury and is a toxic heavy metal. Another example is aluminum phosphate, and another is formaldehyde, which is a known carcinogen- meaning it is capable of causing cancer, and many more to mention just a few.

2. Vaccines contain not only harmful chemicals which the body tries to eliminate as soon as they enter it, but they also comprise of animal proteins and substances like rabbit brain tissue, chicken embryo, monkey kidney cells and calf serum that can cause serious allergic reactions especially in infants and young children that are already susceptible to disease.

In addition to that, if the reactions to elimination like fever, skin rash and swelling are suppressed through other drugs then the poisons are most likely retained inside the body triggering numerous diseases like autism, juvenile diabetes and asthma. In some vaccines even DNA from aborted fetuses is found, making it a concern for religious and other groups.

3. While in most cases there are no noticeable symptoms related to vaccines, there are always hidden effects that occur within the body and especially the cognitive system, lowering its ability to function at its peak and weakening its overall physical strength while at the same time depleting some of the energy. This is more easily observable in children, as they mature at a rate far below their true potential contracting many diseases that they could have been able to fight due to a better immune system that has not been suppressed.

Other diseases have been associated with vaccines as well, including flu vaccine side effects in particular that is said to be the cause of the Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS). Others involve toxins clogging up our lymphatics, increasing auto-immune disease and cancer. And as there are foreign bodies present from other animals, it could transfer harmful substances that can effect how our immune system functions making it more vulnerable.

Another important point to note is that vaccines are not what builds up the immune system, but nutrition is what revitalizes our bodies to fight diseases and function properly. This correlation between nutrition and an improved immune system is a proven one.

The increase in diseases is directly related to malnutrition and hygiene, making the past few centuries more vulnerable to diseases due to a general lack of hygiene and unclean water supplies and not necessarily due to a lack of vaccination.

Sources:

1. Dr. Mercola, "Vaccines and Immune Supression." Mercola.com.

2. Neil Z. Miller, "Swine Flu and Swine Flu Vaccines." Think Twice - Global Vaccine Institute.