Re: Fwd: Neurosurgical Neuro News and more

[Guest guest]

>Modern Flu Vaccine Not Linked to MS Exacerbation

Influenza is not likely to cause relapse of multiple sclerosis (MS)

in adults, according to an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report.

Reuters Health Information 2003<

I dont believe this for one second! It was the flu that started an

excaberation which permanently weakened my legs! This looks like an

endorsement for the flu shot.

[Guest guest]

> >Modern Flu Vaccine Not Linked to MS Exacerbation

> Influenza is not likely to cause relapse of multiple sclerosis (MS)

> in adults, according to an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report.

> Reuters Health Information 2003<

>

>

> I dont believe this for one second! It was the flu that started an

> excaberation which permanently weakened my legs! This looks like an

> endorsement for the flu shot.

>

Well, it is an endorsement for the flu shot--or at least a statement that

says it doesn't see this as a reason not to get one. An endorsement doesn't

necessarily carry sinister motivations. And for every drug or vaccine I can

think of, there are warnings about groups of people for whom a drug or

vaccine is contraindicated.

You may have had an exacerbation for entirely different reasons. You're

entitled, of course, to decide whether or not your exacerbation was due to

this, and I'm not about to tell you what to do. But the IOM is going to base

its conclusions on observations of large groups of people, and the flu shot

is something for which it does have great amounts of data--unlike,

unfortunately, LDN.

Bou