oh please don't get this emotional guilt BS. to sell your point .
Hardly about being emotional - it's about simple facts.
Vaccinations save far more lives than the number of people that have potentially been harmed, by several orders of magnitude. They also improve the quality of life for even MORE people through herd immunity, protecting those who are immuno-compromised and/or otherwise are unable to fight off those diseases themselves.
Merck , had to recall , 750,000 vials of Gardasil , for glass contamination
And that is bad. Guess what - things happen, especially in mass manufacturing processes. This happens frequently in almost any mass-manufacturing process.
For example - take a look some time into the FDA requirements and regulations regarding canned or jarred food:
https://www.menshealth.com/health/g19543623/food-contaminants/
https://www.fda.gov/food/guidancere...mation/sanitationtransportation/ucm056174.htm
It is, unfortunately, a simple fact of life when you are using mechanized, automated processes to produce hundreds of thousands to millions of units of a product a day that some will be damaged, defective, or otherwise contaminated - after all, it would be
virtually impossible to keep every single insect and speck of dust out of a several hundred thousand square foot manufacturing plant - physically, it could be done, but the costs associated with doing so (including full positive pressure air circulation systems, clean rooms, and beyond medical quality sanitation of loading/unloading docks and transport trucks) would be positively ridiculous.
Finally, if the glass particles are small enough to fit into a hypodermic needle, they are extremely unlikely to cause
any adverse reaction whatsoever. A 25 gauge hypodermic needle (one of the more common sizes) is .5mm in external diameter, with an inner diameter of .25mm - less than one quarter of a millimeter. So, that piece of glass must be less than 250 micrometers.
one wonders who suffered to find out this information and pass it along . they must have suffered terribly . imagine glass in your blood stream ? it must have torn their arteries and veins to shreds
Now, think about this for a moment - the vaccine is given into muscle tissue (not the blood stream) - they are not intravenous, but rather intramuscular. As such, there is virtually zero risk of that glass particle "shredding blood vessels". Instead, as with most contaminants, the body will initiate an inflammation response, and macrophages (specialized white blood cells) will begin to break the foreign body down.
The human body is
already equipped to deal with this kind of foreign particle in the body, because you ingest such things
all the time when you eat. If it wasn't, small pieces of bone, rock, carapace, and other tiny, hard objects that we inevitably consume would be extraordinarily uncomfortable, if not lethal.
Also, factor in - the glass particles are less than HALF the size of the needle used to deliver them. Any pain/irritation at the injection site is a normal reaction to having
something pierce the skin - beyond that, it is not uncommon for soreness/redness at the injection site for a vaccination, as the body initiates it's
expected and desired immuno-response... this is what gives you protection, which is what the vaccine is designed to do.
. and recalled over one million doses of Hib , ( Haemophilus influenzae type b ) because of being contaminated with bacillus cereus bacteria , food poisoning .
It recalled over a million doses for
potential contamination.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20084617
PURPOSE:
On 13 December 2007, Merck & Co., Inc. voluntarily recalled 1.2 million doses of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccines that had been distributed since April 2007 for concerns regarding potential Bacillus cereus contamination. Enhanced postrecall surveillance was conducted to detect vaccine-associated B. cereus infections.
METHODS:
We reviewed reports involving recalled Hib vaccines received by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) during 1 April 2007-29 February 2008. For each reported death, autopsy review sought evidence of B. cereus infections. For each specified outcome, the proportional reporting ratios (PRRs) were calculated to compare the recalled Hib vaccines with the manufacturer's nonrecalled Hib vaccines in the VAERS databases. On 20 December 2007, we used the Epidemic Information Exchange (Epi-X) to solicit nongastrointestinal vaccine-associated B. cereus infections, and requested B. cereus isolates for genotyping to compare with the manufacturing facility isolate.
RESULTS:
VAERS received 75 reports involving recalled Hib vaccines; none described a confirmed B. cereus infection. Comparative analyses did not reveal disproportionate reporting of specified outcomes for recalled Hib vaccines. The Epi-X posting triggered one report of vaccine-associated B. cereus bacteremia from a child who received a nonrecalled Hib vaccine manufactured by Merck; the genotypes of isolates from the patient and the manufacturing facility differed.
CONCLUSIONS:
No evidence of vaccine-associated B. cereus infection had been found in recipients of recalled Hib vaccines. Conducting laboratory surveillance through Epi-X was feasible and may enhance public health response capacities for future vaccine safety emergencies.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/hib-recall.html
- No evidence of B. cereus infection was found in people who received recalled Hib vaccines.
- Routine testing identified B. cereus in the vaccine manufacturing process equipment, but not in individual vaccine lots.
- In December 2007, CDC's Epi-X was used to collect information from among thousands of public health professionals and infectious disease specialists for vaccine-associated B. cereus infection. One report of vaccine-associated B. cereus infection was found in a child who received a non-recalled Hib vaccine from the same manufacturer. The patient's B. cereus isolate did not have the same genotype ("fingerprints") as the B. cereusisolated from the manufacturing equipment.
So, it would seem that nobody was infected, and in fact none of the vials tested were contaminated.
So... River, what was it you said about needing to "inform yourself"?[/QUOTE]