re: Pneumonia Vaccine Ineffective for Elderly

Galacia — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:36:19 GMT

I'm very sorry to hear about your mother. On one YahooForum, a woman said she works with the elderly in an institution of some kind, and every winter, after they give the flu shots, the death rate shoots up. You'd think there would be studies that investigate this kind of thing, but to my knowledge, there are not.

re: Pneumonia Vaccine Ineffective for Elderly

bellaboo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:09:13 GMT

I find you article very interesting. My mother passed last year at age 89. She had lost a lot of weight over a long period of time, but though a lot of tests were run on her nothing physical could be found wrong with her. She possibly wasn't eating as well as she used to, though food was plentiful. In March 2007 her Doctor said to her that if she didn't increase her eating she would get pneumonia and die. Having said this the Doctor strongly suggested that Mum should have the pneumonia injection to protect her. Mum was never a believer in injections especially after having flu injections in the past and each time she became very ill. She hadn't had a flu injection for five years. Within 2 weeks of the injection her health declined rapidly. Her death certificate read, cause of death, sepsis and pneumonia. Before Mum passed I had never heard of sepsis and sepsis was never mentioned while she was in hospital. No one will ever shake my belief that she died due to the pneumonia injection. I have never seen anyone go down so fast.