• Question: Why are we injected with injections that cotain a virus that our body is trying to fight against such as eg. a flu jab fights flu and gets our body to be immune to the flu. However a flu jab contains the flu virus. Why is this? Is this what the goverment wants you to do? Are you trying to bring depopulation into action?

    Asked by gurneetkang to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 14 Mar 2013.
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      James Holloway answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      No depopulation 🙂 making people immune to diseases this way actually keeps many more people alive.

      When the human body catches a virus it fights it, defeats it and remembers it. If that virus tries to infect the person again it can’t because the body remembers how to defeat the virus.

      The flu is caused by a virus, and you can catch the flu many times. This is because it is a slightly different strain of virus that you are catching each time. You can never catch the same strain twice (that is why if you give the flu to your brother you don’t have to worry about him giving it back to you).

      When a doctor gives you an injection with a virus it is a weakened-broken version of the virus that can’t harm you. However you body will still learn how to recognise it and be ready to attack it if it meets it again. So when you do meet the virus in real life your body already has the weapons it needs to defeat it straight away.

      inoculations are a very good thing! I’ve had inoculations.

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      Emma Ashley answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      Yes it’s definitely better to get your jabs than not to (especillay the big ones like TB, tetanus, measles). The government recommends that older people who may have weaker immune systems to get the flu jab, and also people who work in hospitals and stuff because they’re more likely to be exposed to people with flu. They say it’s best to get the flu jab every year because each vaccination has newer strains of the flu virus in it.

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      Niall Crawford answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      I’m obviously failing the government, spending too much time working on frogs.

      I’ve had tons of immunisations. I most probably owe my life to them.

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