U.S. government panel now pushing "vaccinations for all!" No exceptions…
David Gutierrez
NaturalNews.com
26 Jun 2010
An advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) has recommended that every person be vaccinated for the seasonal flu
yearly, except in a few cases where the vaccine is known to be unsafe.
"Now no one should say 'Should I or shouldn't I?'" said CDC flu
specialist Anthony Fiore.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 11-0 with one abstention
to recommend yearly flu vaccination for everyone except for children under
the age of six months, whose immune systems have not yet developed enough
for vaccination to be safe, and people with egg allergies or other health
conditions that are known to make flu vaccines hazardous. If accepted by
the CDC, this recommendation will then be publicized to doctors and other
health workers.
The CDC nearly always accepts the advisory committee's recommendations.
Current CDC recommendations call for the yearly vaccination of all children
over the age of six months, all adults over the age of 49, health care workers,
people with chronic health problems and anyone who cares for a person in
one of these groups. These recommendations cover 85 percent of the US population.
Excluded are adults between the ages of 19 and 49 who do not come into close
contact with people in high-risk groups. The new recommendation, if adopted,
would close that gap, bringing an end to a 10-year campaign by supporters
of universal vaccination. In the past, the advisory committee has been reluctant
to recommend universal vaccination for fear that it might produce vaccine
shortages that place members of higher risk groups in danger. Yet even with
current recommendations, only 33 percent of the public gets vaccinated every
year, leaving millions of doses to be disposed of.
The H1N1 swine flu scare of the past year played a major role in the committee's
about face, both because the disease killed many people falling outside the
current recommended vaccine demographic and because it raised public awareness
of and demand for vaccines.
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