Thread: H1N1 vaccination

Interesting article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ccine.html

it is not quite sure. I understood that Finland still wonders about the reactivity of the vaccine and has not made any decision for the 2nd shot. But I hope they're not so stupid to waste all that money: the media have already manage to get people to panic about the possible lack of vaccination for everybody, imagine what will hapen if they start to say that the vaccine doesn't protect you unless you get the 2nd shot. So if it is...

Aren't all Baltic fish too high in PCBs to eat, anyway?

irnbru wrote: raamv wrote: One thing that Finland does not take a risk is about Healthcare.. So For those who think that Finnish system doesnt care.. Get to your own country and get that second jab.... This is the main thing with Foreign people coming here and making our perception from a Finn's p.o.v really really bad.. is doubting that the Finnish Health Ministry is incompetent.. IF not for ALL of those folks, Finland would not stand a...

Infanrix does have trace of thimerosal (source : FDA). It is very little hence they got the right to call it mercury-free but there is trace of it still. Rotarix does not have any thimerosal or aluminium tough. But it is given orally so it is slightly different than injected vaccines.

kay30 wrote: I've also noticed the use of flunssa here for things like a runny nose. I tried explaining that it really does mean something different in English, to no avail. Same thing with calling cupcakes muffins. It's not a muffin, dammit, if it is made out of cake batter and has frosting! (OK, technically a muffin is a kind of cake but you know what I mean.) Flunssa = the cold Influenssa = the flu

Finally got the bub (7months) jabbed today - he got 1 in each arm... piggy & seasonal... delayed because of ear infection last week. He smiled throughout! Daddy took him at the end of the day and there was 1 dose left, so the nurse offered it to him, so now hubby has also been piggy flu jabbed! Toddler (nearly 4) should get hers next week.

tonia99 wrote: Hi, my 7 year old will not take the vaccine. I just think this vaccine has too much mercury in it and that is a health risk in itself. Make sure you don't eat any tuna then. (I dread to think how much Baltic herring has) http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2 ... cine-safe/

EP wrote: At HS page I read that one could queue for a while bu still get vaccination even not being in risk group. Where does it say that? At least not in the paper paper. It says quite the opposite. They don´t have enough vaccine at least not now. The paper paper HS says that in Espoo there have been people queueing who are clearly over 64. They have been given the ordinary flu shot as consolation. This was in web HS in English, but you...

ajl wrote: ummm, tuulen, pregnant women are supposed to be vaccinated right after health care workers.... Pregnancy correlates to an increase in mortality from this mild virus, limited vaccine supplies dictate some sort of prioritized list. For some the fact that they didn't order adjuvant (sp?) free vaccine for pregnant women is an issue (at least I've seen such questioning in Finnish and Canadian news, not an issue for the US...