You say, "I believe vaccines are about the most benign things you can put into your body, that is to say, even if they don't work, what harm can they do?"

If you looked up the ingredients of the vaccine (found in the pharmaceutical insert in each box of serum and the Physician's Desk Reference--hard copy or online version), then looked up the chemical profile of those ingredients (located online through the Environmental Protection Agency), you would see that vaccines are far from benign and can do harm.

The most concerning ingredient is MF59C.1. -- an adjuvant composed of squalene, polysorbate 80, and sorbitan trioleate in citrate buffer, an oil-in-water emulsion. It has been known for decades that Squalene causes severe autoimmune diseases in lab animals. UCLA Medical School showed that few oils were more effective at causing the animal versions of arthritis and multiple sclerosis than squalene. In 1999, immunologist Dr. Johnny Lorentzen found that on injection, an “otherwise benign molecule like squalene can stimulate a self-destructive immune response.” Other research shows that squalene is the experimental anthrax vaccine ingredient that caused devastating autoimmune diseases and deaths for many Gulf War veterans. There’s a “close match between the squalene-induced diseases in animals and those observed in humans injected with this oil: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus.”

FLUAD also contains other ingredients used in the manufacturing process, some of which could be problematic: sodium and potassium chloride, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, disodium phosphate dehydrate, magnesium chloride hexahydrate, calcium chloride dehydrate, neomycin, kanamycin, residual egg protein, formaldehyde, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and barium.

The May 31, 2011 FLUAD ‘Prescribing Information’ monograph by Novartis Pharmaceutical Canada Inc. warns, “FLUAD has not been evaluated for…carcinogenic or mutagenic potential.” It also admits that no studies have been done to evaluate possible harmful drug interactions with FLUAD.

Numerous post marketing adverse events involving the immune system, blood, skin and nervous system have been reported.

I TOTALLY agree with you that the public should know the whole story. This is the only way one can make a truly informed decision. Doctors/vaccine-givers have only the information provided by the pharma companies that want their product pushed, so one needs to do their research in order to know the whole story..

I am one of "those" people, who just have this awful foreboding feeling about the flu shot. I have never been able to bring my self or subject my children to it. I too have learned a lot here today. Thank you for essentially proving what my subconscious already knew and what I was too lazy to research my self.

Thank you Sonya. Also Tara, your $0.02 is always appreciated. You know typewriters used to have the cents symbol. Would it kill modern keyboards to have the same??