Mayo Clinic doctor says flu vaccines do not contribute to Alzheimer's

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Dr. Boeve of the Mayo Clinic says:

" There is absolutely no evidence that flu vaccines contribute in any way to

Alzheimer's disease, and it is hard to imagine a mechanism of how this could

affect amyloid or tau. One blogger referred to excitotoxicity, but this idea

came from a non-physician making wild claims and selling a book for profit.

" Consider also that thousands of healthy people die from the flu each year, and

the vaccines clearly reduce the potential of developing the flu, and lessen the

severity of the flu if you still get it. The public must balance what is proven

and could keep them from getting very ill or dying as opposed to an unfounded

theory by a layperson.

" If this theory keeps one person from getting the vaccine, and then he or she

becomes very ill or dies from the flu, those who write or support such claims

have contributed to that person's illness or death. "

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/comments/MY00486_comments#post

More on Dr. Boeve:

" My clinical and research interests include normal aging, neurodegenerative

disorders that cause cognitive impairment/dementia, neurogenetics, prion

disorders, autoimmune/inflammatory encephalopathies, and the

neurologically-based sleep disorders. Specific disorders of interest include

mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease, frontotemporal

dementia, Lewy body dementia, corticobasal degeneration, posterior cortical

atrophy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, " Hashimoto's encephalopathy, " nonvasculitic

autoimmune meningoencephalopathies, REM sleep behavior disorder, narcolepsy, and

restless legs syndrome/periodic limb movement disorder. "

http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/staff/boeve_bf.cfm

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