IUBio

Avoiding the flu

Graham Shepherd muhero at globalnet.co.uk
Sun Jan 16 13:01:01 EST 2000


<RSAMSON18 at cs.com> wrote in message news:d2.5b08aa.25b2a80c at cs.com...
> You can probably better avoid coming down with the flu by associating with
> healthy
> people who have completely recovered from the flu than by getting the weak
flu
> vaccination.  The antibodies produced from the actual flu are much
stronger
> than
> those from the present vaccine.  In fact, for someone with a strong immune
> system,
> the flu vaccine may weaken their response to the actual virus.  Perhap, a
> different
> approach might be taken.  Vaccinate individuals with strong immune systems
> with
> the actual virus and then have them spread their antibodies around after
they
> have
> defeated the virus.  Vaccinating into muscle while maintaining a high
level of
> Vitamin C in serum to provide antidotes for the macrophages should contain
the
> virus to the vicinity of the injection but allow antibodies to spread
> throughout the
> body.
> The relatively poor showing of this year's flu shots suggests some
rethinking.
> Ralph L. Samson
> ---

This only works if you're a vampire.

GS






More information about the Immuno mailing list

Send comments to us at biosci-help [At] net.bio.net