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Memekiller Donating Member (755 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-27-09 12:26 PM
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15. Apparently, not BS...
...though, apparently, no longer considered a possibility.

There had been hope that the current seasonal vaccine might do some good, since it contains an H1N1 virus component — meaning the new swine flu strain was at least in the same family of viruses. But the new H1N1 virus is apparently too different for the current vaccine to offer what scientists call "cross protection."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10...

Hardly impossible, as specific as vaccines may be. It was a possibility seriously being considered by people with medical backgrounds at the time.
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  -Jenny McCarthy, bringer of the Apocalypse Memekiller  Apr-27-09 11:47 AM   #0 
  - ...  Ian David   Apr-27-09 11:49 AM   #1 
  - Imagine a world with safe vaccines. nt  valerief   Apr-27-09 11:49 AM   #2 
  - Because a non-existent vaccine could've stopped the current outbreak?  villager   Apr-27-09 11:51 AM   #3 
  - In the story...  Memekiller   Apr-27-09 11:54 AM   #5 
     - Except there is no flu shot for this particular flu....  villager   Apr-27-09 11:54 AM   #6 
     - but those with the flu shot...  Memekiller   Apr-27-09 11:56 AM   #8 
        - bullshit. it is no help whatsoever. Do you even understand what a vaccine is?  Lerkfish   Apr-27-09 11:59 AM   #11 
        - Apparently, not BS...  Memekiller   Apr-27-09 12:26 PM   #15 
        - Um, no, that's just you extrapolating -- people with actual medical backgrounds aren't claiming this  villager   Apr-27-09 12:01 PM   #12 
           - they are, however  northzax   Apr-27-09 01:15 PM   #16 
              - Huh? There's a secondary pneumonia that's lethal, in Mexico...  villager   Apr-27-09 01:33 PM   #19 
     - there have been 40 cases in the US  northzax   Apr-27-09 01:16 PM   #17 
        - Good question...  Memekiller   Apr-27-09 01:32 PM   #18 
           - where did the 'white' come from?  northzax   Apr-27-09 01:43 PM   #20 
              - That I can't explain n/t  Memekiller   Apr-27-09 04:10 PM   #21 
                 - but you wrote it?  northzax   Apr-27-09 04:43 PM   #22 
  - sorry, but bullshit. obviously don't understand how flu vaccines work  Lerkfish   Apr-27-09 11:53 AM   #4 
  - Again, read the story...  Memekiller   Apr-27-09 11:55 AM   #7 
     - I read the story--the story is wrong, sorry. What I told you is correct.  Lerkfish   Apr-27-09 11:58 AM   #10 
        - That may be...  Memekiller   Apr-27-09 12:17 PM   #14 
           - "I'm just reiterating ..." (i.e. spreading unsubstantiated gossip).  puebloknot   Apr-27-09 05:15 PM   #23 
  - Has Jenny McCarthy come out against developing a Swine Flu vaccine?  mzmolly   Apr-27-09 11:57 AM   #9 
     - That may be...  Memekiller   Apr-27-09 12:16 PM   #13 
 

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