free flu shots in the city at the Bupa CBD Store.
91 Adelaide St
Brisbane QLD
no booking necessary.
only available between 11am - 1 pm and 2 - 4pm.
something similar is available in Melbourne University (booking required) through the following link
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I've just been. The lady said that they're trying to encourage people to book in for the week to ensure they're seen so either call them or pop in on your way to work. Takes only a minute but they make you wait 15mins so they can see you haven't had an adverse reaction. Free lollipop too
Rex Medical Clinics at Ferntree Gully, Warrandyte and Bundoora in Victoria also giving out free flu vaccines for everyone above 9 years old. Just googled them.
Have you got any peer reviewed sources to substantiate your negative vote?
<sarcasm>
Who needs peer reviewed, it is all over the internets. Everybody knows it is all true there.
</sarcasm>
shut up Jenny McCarthy
Troll all you like, but the sad thing is that people actually believe this.
Just like some think this injection will prevent them from catching the flu.
I think your thinking stems from a British (former) doctor called Andrew Wakefield. He published a report that concluded that vaccines caused autism. However since his publication, his work has been reviewed, judged, ripped apart and he has been found guilty of academic misconduct, dishonesty, and abuse of mentally challenged children etc etc. He has also been stripped of his ability to practice medicine, and is shunned by the medical community. He single handedly is responsible for much of the negativity towards vaccines today, which are one if the most cost effective interventions in medicine.
Please stop being stupid.
Dropped in 3pm at Brisbane but nurse giving flu shots had just left for the day because so quiet, no customers. Suggested come back tomorrow 11-1.
Does anyone know which brand of flu vaccine they are being injected with?
Is it Fluarix?Fluarix Product Information: http://www.gsk.com.au/resources.ashx/vaccineproductschilddat…
Just be aware of the following before getting the injection, especially for vegans or vegetarians.
DESCRIPTION
Fluarix is an inactivated and purified split influenza vaccine. The antigen composition and strains for the 2014 influenza season corresponds to the following types:
A/California/7/2009 (H1N1) - like virus,
A/Texas/50/2012 (H3N2) - like virus*,
B/Massachusetts/02/2012 - like virus
* an (H3N2) virus antigenically like the cell - propagated prototype virus A/Victoria/361/2011.Fluarix is prepared using whole virus cultivated in embryonated hens' eggs. The virus is concentrated and purified by clarification, adsorption and centrifugation. The purified whole virus is then treated with the detergent sodium deoxycholate and again centrifuged, and the resulting antigen suspension is inactivated with formaldehyde.
Each 0.5ml vaccine does contains 15ug haemagglutinin of each of the reconnded strains (total 45ug haemagglutinin). The vaccine preparation also contains alpha tocopheryl acid succinate, sodium deoxycholate, sodium chloride, magnesium chloride, potassium Chloride, potassium phosphate monobasic, sodium phosphate dibasic dodecahydrate, sucrose, polysorbate 80, octoxinol 10, formaldehyde and gentamincin sulfate in water for injections.
The manufacture of this product includes exposure to bovine derived materials.CONTRAINDICATIONS
Fluarix should not be administered to participant s with known hypersensitivity to egg proteins (eggs, chicken feathers), gentamicin or any other excipient (ingredients) of the vaccine.How did they come up with the 60% to 90% effective statement in the Ad? As it might not work all together since it only covers three strains and effectiveness depends on your immune response.
Learn how to build a strong immune system by changing certain aspects of your lifestyle instead.
I heard they can only offer this for free because they use needles that are contaminated with HIV and Hep C.
I know you are making fun of it but the information sheet does say the following on page 8… http://www.gsk.com.au/resources.ashx/vaccineproductschilddat…
Effect on Laboratory tests
False positive ELISA serologic tests for HIV-1, Hepatitis C, and especially HTLV-1 may occur following influenza vaccination. These transient false-positive results may be due to cross-reactive IgM elicited by the vaccine. For this reason, a definitive diagnosis of HIV-1, Hepatitis C, or HTLV-1 infection requires a positive result from a virus-specific confirmatory test (e.g,Western Blot or immunoblot).
oh my god what a sheltered life you must live.
It might not work, but you're giving yourself the best chance of it actually working.
Your personal beliefs are not a reason to neg a dealI only presented facts from the manufacturer datasheet, do you know look at the specification before you buy or consume a product?
It is also no different if Dick Smith was giving out free tablets or mobile phones and the product specification has a cause for concern then I'm gonna say it like it is. I'm not gonna want it even if it was free.
"Willful ignorance in the presence of Knowledge is the measure of a bad person." - Mark Passio
Your personal beliefs based on information you've gathered is a sound reason to neg a deal.
I commend that you did try to proper research this time, somewhat, by using the manufacturer's info.
Just to enlighten you a little, the flu vaccine, each year, only covers 3-4 strains each year, for reasons too. These strains are selected based on the virulence (i think that's the right word), aka, picked by the highest risk in transmission and mortality. Once you are injected by a particular strain, you'll have stronger immunity against it, for pretty much all of your life. Consider that if you been vaccinated several times, then you'll be actually vaccinated against several strains each year. Not much point in vaccinated for 50 different strains each year? especially when each winter, only 1 or 2 strains will cause any harm.
The flu virus, or influenza, is a virus that can adapt really well to its environment. It undergoes antigenic shift, changing its surface proteins that vaccines bind to to attack, to protect itself. Hence, why the flu vaccine is available each year, even if you vaccinated the year before - as it is not guaranteed that if you are vaccinated for year x, you are immune for year x +1.
the lucky thing about australia is that, we're fairly isolated, and the general pattern of influenza transmission, is that it occurs in other overseas during their winters before we have it. Meaning that scientists adapt the vaccine to best suit the current risk. Again, hence the limited number of strains.
My initial question was…
Is it Fluarix?
I still don't have that answer.
Plus I was trying make people aware that they need to know which product is being offered so they can make a proper judgement. "Flu shot" is rather generic.
It's like saying "Free Phone"! Which phone is it?
Why is it that you would look at the specs of the latest Ultra HD 4K TV but not for an injection?
Is it Fluarix? No idea, best to call them.
And similiar to you, just trying to inform people so they can make a proper judgement
It's NOT Fluarix
It is FLUVAX
Finally! Thanks for that.
"Learn how to build a strong immune system by changing certain aspects of your lifestyle instead."
I'd have loved to see you try that in the 19th century with smallpox.
Living conditions were totally different in the 19th century. They faced challenges such as overcrowding, overworked, inadequet sewerage treatment/sanitary infrastruture, lack of access to fresh food, minimal health education etc.
We're now in the 21st century and we're dealing with the flu not smallpox.
Certain aspects you can change in your lifestyle are watch less tv, eat less processed food, eat less fast food. Do the right amount exercise, the right amount of fresh air and sunshine etc.
If you are someone who is always sick then you need to take responsibility for your own health and make a positive change in your lifestyle for a positive health outcome. You can NOT just rely on a product such as the "flu shot" and expect to be healthy.
True Health comes from nutrition and that nutrition always starts from the soil and works its way up the food chain.
I came into this thread just for the white knight "who-knows-the-real-truth" against all the "propaganda-infected simpletons"…you did not disappoint.
Carry on, now; hen's eggs and AIDs, you say..?
Just wondering, but why do you think we are not living with smallpox anymore? Do you think it is because we reached the 21st century, or do you think it had something to do with medicine?
As I have already mentioned, in the 19th century they faced challenges such as overcrowding, overworked, inadequate sewerage treatment/sanitary infrastructure, lack of access to fresh food, minimal health education etc.
Poor hygiene, sanitation and nutrition is the foundation for disease. This is the first thing that needs to be improved in order for the body to fight off diseases.
If your living condition means the place where you store your rotten food that you worked 12-16 hours for is next to a water closet shared with 14 families where feces are everywhere due to lack of sewerage. You can take all your medicine you want but does not mean you will be healthy.
I really hope for the sake of yourself, and any children you might ever have that this is an elaborate troll.
All good. Modokun.
You'll forget about this in a couple of weeks.Good health to you brother.
Unfortuantely not sintro. Chances are if the fear campaigns work, more people will die unnecessarily. Might as well be living in a society where people consult witch doctors.
Who's inciting fear?
I don't fear the flu mate.
You must have a boring life if being bed ridden for a week+ doesn't scare you…
Nope. I'm just not weak and timid.
Oh, so you one of the selfish people who refuse to stay home when their sick and spread their disgusting germs every where. My employer has had to send people like you home before, "pushing" yourself helps no one. It's just attention seeking.
What are you talking about? You make a lot of assumptions mate, I'm self employed.
I said I'm not weak. I'm rarely sick, haven't been for the past few years since I changed my eating habits plus other lifestyle changes etc.
So everyone has to be like you? The majority of people working in offices, where turn up to work sick is frowned upon. Its nothing to do with being "weak", its about being considerate.
I said I'm not weak, what does it have to do with other people?
If people you know go to work when they are sick, YOU have to confront them and tell them to go home, rest and recover. No point telling me about it.
Thank you, the Australian Vaccination network rep.
they are giving it away (via a nurse they've hired) because they provide health insurance and know that having the flu can be very costly.
Just because its free don't mean you need it.
By all means if your elderly why not but young and fit pass.Had the injection maybe 8 years ago when my work started to give them out for free. But since then I haven't.
Every year I see the same sheep trot off to get jabbed.
Wow free lollipop with every injection of who knows what.How about this.. There is a concept called 'group immunity'. Certain people in the community such as the very young, the very old, and the immunocompromised whom the vaccine may not work for, or are less effective, will benefit if people around them are immunized and hence won't contract nor transfer the disease.
If a community is by majority immunised, the risk of anyone getting sick is lowered.
You may say that you haven't needed immunization, but considered that all the people around you may be immunised instead.
Another scenario, say you do get sick with the flu because you aren't immunised. You survive because your immunity system is strong enough to protect you. But that doesn't stop it by transmitting to others. Consider that risk.Fair enough that you don't need it but I don't see why you have to downvote the post
Did you learn about that when you were a kid? Please keep up-to-date with information…
"Herd Immunity." The flawed science and failures of mass vaccination, Suzanne Humphries, MD
http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2012/07/05/herd-immunity-t…Because I don't think it's a good deal.
Those who like it click "+" and those who don't click "-".What else is that button used for?
Edit: Well my neg got revoked anyway. What is the purpose of the "-" button?
Suzanne Humphries, has 'embraced homeopathy', if you know anything about homeopathy, case closed.
Did you learn about that from a medical professional? No. They don't do quackery
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/02/16/dr-suzanne-hump…I don't see that listed in her CV.
http://drsuzanne.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CV-11.5.2103…You can question her directly about that by emailing her but it has no relation to that article.
Go put your tinfoil hat back on and return to your quiet corner, sintro.
bazzaa, use your own time and attention to read what she wrote and her presentations. Then make your own judgement about her based on that information.
If you speak out on any controversial topic there's bound to be someone who will try to character assassinate you.
Hahahaha. A Doctor recommends homeopathy has EVERYTHING to do with how valuable their opinion is.
on her website, " I left conventional medicine to research the many problems with mainstream medical theory, to write, and to conduct a holistic medical practice" - holistic medical practice, as if that's not homeopathy.
IMO if our was practicing medicine right now, I wouldn't want my patients to know that I was homeopathic.
plus, the homeopathy community has claimed her as their own. http://www.tftpractitioners.net/suzanne-humphries-md/
http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2012/09/07/vitamin-c-for-w…
^last paragraph for that last link, note that it's the same website that you posted, which btw is an anti-vaccination website, (i'm calling it biased.)
bs0,
"A holistic doctor may use all forms of health care, from conventional medication to alternative therapies, to treat a patient. For example, when a person suffering from migraine headaches pays a visit to a holistic doctor, instead of walking out solely with medications, the doctor will likely take a look at all the potential factors that may be causing the person's headaches, such as other health problems, diet and sleep habits, stress and personal problems, and preferred spiritual practices. The treatment plan may involve drugs to relieve symptoms, but also lifestyle modifications to help prevent the headaches from recurring."
You are bringing up homeopathy for the only reason as ridicule.
You can also call any study that critically looks at vaccine safety as anti-vaccine. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12026-013-8403-1… Would you call this baised and anti-vaccine?
In young children, a highly significant correlation exists between the number of pediatric aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines administered and the rate of autism spectrum disorders. Many of the features of aluminum-induced neurotoxicity may arise, in part, from autoimmune reactions, as part of the ASIA syndrome."
please read my comments holistically.
From before, "i left conventional medicine…"
and from the link i posted from vaccination council, "Homeopathy, nutrition, micronutrients, and detoxification are among the modalities she implements…"I bring homeopathy because she practices it. You can't deny that can you? It's from the same website that you linked before.
Do you support homeopathy then, since you have a problem with me bringing it up?. If you do support it, then I hope you understand it. Homeopathy believes in treating a disease with a diluted form of some kind of pathogen/stimulant that is diluted many many many times to the point that it's pretty much a placebo.
As for that article, I can't access it without paying, not sure if you can though. In terms of research, it is a much better source than vaccinationcouncil, it's from an actual research journal lol.
Well my neg got revoked as well.
Goes to show which sides the mods on.
Why have the neg option if your going to take away my right to vote.In my opinion this is not even a bargain so it shouldn't even be on this page.
Flame suit on.
Neg away.Shame mods shame.
If your reason for negging this deal is because you're ignorant to the concept of herd immunity, I think it's valid to disregard your (wasted) vote. My old epidemiology professor would be rolling in his grave if he read your comment.
Well based on your comment all positive votes by the sheep should be revoked as well.
My opinion is negative to this post as I don't think it's a bargain.
I do think immunization has its place but not in a blanket cover for the flu.
Well based on your comment all positive votes by the sheep should be revoked as well.
That… I… what?
My opinion is negative to this post as I don't think it's a bargain.
It's free.
I do think immunization has its place but not in a blanket cover for the flu.
While a case can be made that a flu shot does not benefit absolutely everyone, it's also harmless and confers quantifiable health benefits to individuals and the community. You hand-waved this with "I got a shot. Did nothing. Now I don't get it anymore unlike those 'sheep' at work > Neg."
@Billygoat. Re: your "opinion".
There is this silly saying that's been going around for a long time: "I'm entitled to my opinion". You know what - you're not. If you want to be entitled to an opinion, prove you deserve to be. Bring some evidence to the table that doesn't come from the mouths of snake-oil sales(wo)men.
I can safely say that I have nothing against homeopathy, chinese medicine or any other alternate methods of assisting the body to heal itself.
Allopathic medicine is certainly not the only method of choice.
When the suituation arises I will have to make a decision based on my current knowledge and understanding, other people's experiences and the availability of a reliable practitioner for the chosen health recovery method.
Have you heard of water memory?
New Research Supports The Theory That Water Has Memory - http://themindunleashed.org/2013/07/new-research-supports-th… Also watch the video.
I'm not watching a video about a theory that exists solely to defend homoeopathic voodoo.
http://www.scilogs.com/in_scientio_veritas/water-memory-myth…
Interesting comments in that link…
But it just proves that there's a lot of work to do and no time to waste.It got revoked because there was no valid reason to negative vote it.
There are many bargains, free products or deals that come along that I have no interest in or do not like, that doesn't make them less of a bargain.
Not liking a 'deal' isn't a valid reason for a negative vote.Sure ok, good water, interesting, I can't be bothered to look in to it much more though.
I like to make my decisions based on current knowledge and understanding, other people's experiences and the availability of a reliable practitioner. But I'm more inclined to my own logical and critical thinking of things that aren't considered EBM (evidence based medicine).
Take your example for starters, water memory. Lets say that it's true (I've no idea, video is limited).
But consider this in the context of homeopathy - that if water has memory, then surely every single glass of water that we have drank has given us immunity to every possible, every conceivable disease?
Then in this case, we wouldn't even need homeopathy or medicine, we should just drink water (people don't think water these days right, that's why people get sick?). We shouldn't even be getting sick to be honest, cause all of that water that most people are drinking has given us insane immunity.Sorry, I'm a somewhat skeptic of most things I hear.
then surely every single glass of water that we have drank has given us immunity to every possible, every conceivable disease?
How did you come to that conclusion? Great imagination tho.
Yes, drink clean water instead of sweet fizzy drinks when possible.
Nothing is truly free. Maybe from a financial perspective it is free…But it costs somewhere else. Government. Experimentation. Disease. Biological. Warfare. Cover-up. Population. Control. I'm not paranoid, stop talking about me!
I don't think Sintro realises you are taking the piss out of him. He pos'd your comment. also… illuminati.
Who says I was joking? Is it right is it left? Is it up is it down? Who knows? Who am I?
Immunization programmes would be a great way to re-engineer humanity. For instance, you could add a molecule into the vaccination that causes sterility or reduce fertility to get the world's ballooning birth rate under control. Unfortunately most Western governments reject population control because they need a huge pool of younger people in order to pay for the welfare & health care of an ever increasing elderly demographic.
It's good that some people here are skeptical about immunization. Just because big pharma or the government tells you something, it doesn't mean it is true. Antidepressants are an expensive hoax for instance, no better than sugar pills. Yet governments and the medical establishment keep flogging them as happy pills that solve all of one's problems. The only thing SSRIs are good for is making you puke, and making you impotent, a neurological contraceptive (at least for males).
Sounds like Dan Brown's latest book :)
to get the world's ballooning birth rate under control.
That part of your argument is patent, alarmist nonsense concocted eons ago by hereditary oligarchs who just want less people around so they can have an easier time constructing their cages.
All 7 billion earthly inhabitants could fit into the state of Texas, each with their own 2-story house (front yard and back yard).
Total population will peak in about 30 years and then begin to decline (the growth rate peaked long ago in 1963 at 2.19%); because collectively the entire world is becoming a bunch of fat, lazy gluttons who don't have time to get off Facebook and have kids.
The Third World may be having 3-6 kids per household but remember their infant mortality rates are incredibly high and as they industrialise and amalgamate with the yoke of the First World, their birth rates too, stabilise and decline (while their waistbands expand and minds shrink). Nature and Americanisation will take care of overpopulation for us.
As agriculture advances we can grow food on land we couldn't before, for longer periods of the year than we could before, and extract more output from the same crop (we're actually using less land to grow/raise the same amount of food; the US government can now afford to pay farmers to not grow food but to return their land to the wild).
Africa, if cultivated using modern farming methods, could feed the entire world (Africa included). (It's just that nobody wants to grow food in many parts of Africa due to a lack of infrastructure and stability)
Food production is perfectly capable of keeping up; food scarcity is artificially-induced because it's profitable to keep demand high and supply low to charge inflated prices.
Anyone who tries to tell you there are too many humans on the planet doesn't have the slightest clue. There are too many retards on the planet, sure (since natural selection doesn't apply anymore), but from a purely logistical perspective, the Earth's carrying capacity is around 30 billion.
The myth of overpopulation is classic social engineering invented by psychopathic, hereditary oligarchs like Malthus who hated the working class and American hippie intellectuals like Paul Ehrlich, who wants more animals around because he's probably into zoophilia. These folks are still in positions of prominence amongst the Anglo-American Globalists; most notable is John Holdren (Obama's "Science & Technology" czar), who says forced abortions, mass covert sterilisation programs, and a "Planetary Regime" that dictates how many children can be born annually by force; are all necessary for future prosperity. Anyone who seriously advocates humans imposing "order" onto the chaos of natural evolution is a advocating their own gradual obsolescence and extermination.
According to the "experts" the Earth was supposed to have reached it's maximum carrying capacity in 1890, 1968, and 1980 and yet here we are, alive and kicking and fatter than ever.
Aggressively cutting back on population growth in the Western world leads to severe demographic problems like the number of elderly outnumbering the young (labour shortages, pensions burdening the economy, brain drain), and an imbalance in the male/female ratio which causes a whole host social and lifestyle problems.
For instance, you could add a molecule into the vaccination that causes sterility
This part of your argument is however bordering on mirroring long-haboured aims:
"The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births."
Barack Obama's primary science adviser, John P. Holdren in his book "Ecoscience" p. 786/787, 1977.“The first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size.”
Professor Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, p.135
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I think you still have to pay a standard Medicare consultation charge but you can book a flu shot here too…
http://www.reviveclinic.com.au/system/Sch/FindFluVacc.asp
You don't get charged for the vaccine itself.
So how is this a Bargain then?
Better bargains have been removed from this area before and moved to the forums or even deleted.its a bargain because you normally pay for it unless you are a child or over the age of 65.
You might not buy a pizza every time it appears on ozbargain but its still a monetary saving and therefore is a deal. Same applies for the flu vac
Well it's always been free for me thru work.
I suppose if your unemployed its a bargain but only if you were going to pay for it anyway.not everyone has a generous employer like you
Very few employers pay for flu vaccination.
Really?
Maybe only the good ones then.
I know of a few who do.
I didnt expect this shitstorm about vaccinations to be found on Ozbargain. :-/
Sure, as with most medical procedures, there is a risk associated with taking vaccines. It is perfectly normal to be sceptical of big pharma and big government. However, the pharma industry is so huge is simply due to the nature of deriving and getting approvals for drugs and active compounds.
Thousands of potential drugs go through research, viability, pre-clincal and early clinical trials only to have the vast majority of them get rejected. The cost to get a drug from concept/research to commercial product costs about 800 million dollars, due to all the R&D, man hours, specialist equipment, patenting, and regulatory procedures associated with them and clinical trials involved. None of those are exceptionally cheap.
In the end, despite the cost of a successful drug being so high, so much money is also spent on drugs which ultimately fail in different stages of the trial process. This is also the reason the pharma industry is so obsessed with patenting, drug development typically takes anywhere between 12-18 years to complete in which there is little to no income generated by the drug. This gives the pharma company only a few years to recoup the lost money and get a return of investment, since 25 years after the end of patent, the chemical compound can be sold by other manufacturers as "generics".
Are there issues with such an expensive and time consuming industry? Sure. However, if you find a way to screen a large amount of chemical compounds, get them tested for efficacy and toxicity in a whole variety of tissues in a whole variety of environments, get it approved for human use and consumption, pass government regulatory procedures, and somehow do it without huge volumes of capital, please chime up. Im sure people would want to know.
As far as the effectiveness of vaccinations go, there is little doubt about their efficacy. Sure, there's the idea of allowing yourself to get in contact with the bugs "naturally". Thats all well and good, but then be prepared to suffer the higher mortality rates associated with outbreaks of measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, whatever. Sure, there are small differences to contracting a disease "naturally" and getting in contact with the antigens via immunisation but the immune response to both is largely the same. This is the entire basis of vaccinations, if your immune system didnt react effectively to the antigens during a "natural" infection then the concept of immunisations would be ineffective and flawed.
Until you're completely sure that you don't have an infectious disease and you arent spreading it to vulnerable members of society either get the vaccination or be prepared to live with the very real possibility that you MIGHT be infectious and you MIGHT be spreading it to members of society who are more at risk than you are.
****Sorry for the rant, this comes from somebody who is surrounded by the whole anti-evolution, anti-vaccinations, homeopathy crowd. ****
I didnt expect this shitstorm about vaccinations to be found on Ozbargain. :-/
It's one of the nuances that makes this place so memorable actually; our regular cast of performers each with their own niches to play and dialogues to say.
HA! Flu shot! Sure it is. Its the governments way of injecting a tracking device under your skin so they can track your every move!
I'm so going to Broden this thing.
While I think a free flu shot is great… Why is no one able to successfully neg this deal?
- They keep your info, even if you ask for them to remove it.
- They will pass your info on to other companies.
- Actual item is not in title. (Like writing Game Console instead of PS4).
- May have negative side effects.
- Not a great deal, as many medical centres offer this for free.
- Appointment required, which may be outside of the week.
Just curious, because they'd all be legitimate reasons to neg in any other post.
Well said!
You can neg any deal you want. However a -ve can be revoked, either by a mod or if 6 people -ve your post, then it cancel's out your neg.
None of the reason's you've mentioned, constitute a valid reason to neg a deal. You can be sure that most so-called 'free' deals posted here, where you provide info that info is passed on to 3rd parties.
It's a deal that's been posted. People can make their own judgement as to their need of the service. What some others above have done, is attempt to start up an ideological discussion on the efficacy of vaccines altogether.
Holistic medicine, Homeopathy, nutrition, learning how to build a strong immune, changing certain aspects of your lifestyle have no place in this thread. They are ideological viewpoints. To neg a deal based on that, and continue beating your chest only serves to show the underlying agenda of those that partake in such an activity.
From the Victorian Dept of Health Website - Flu vaccines for 2104
Government supplied influenza vaccine brands
Fluarix® (GSK)
Fluvax® (bio CSL) – Do not use in children under 5 years of age
Vaxigrip® and Vaxigrip Junior (Sanofi-aventis)As far as I can recall, I have had Fluvax each year for the last 8 years or so.
Was always sceptical about these things, but missed one year and got really sick. Never missed it since and whilst it is no panacea, and doesn't stop you getting the common cold, I don't get sick like I used to each winter now. Travelling on public transport every day with constantly sick people who have no idea about using a handkerchief or covering their mouth when they cough, makes getting vaccinated essential now.
2104? Since when are governments so on the ball
Sorry, I missed that, but surely you realise I meant 2014!!!!
Since I retired 2 years ago I haven't had a flu shot and also haven't had my annual sinus/chest infection. Public transport is the best transmitter of diseases that you can expose yourself to! Travelling on aicraft is another one.
With all due to respect, that is anecdotal evidence and there is little difference between what you have described and someone saying "I got sick every year I had the jab, but one year I didn't and I was well that year" to validate an anti vaccine stance.
Read my reply again.
I never said it validated anything.
What I did say, and you will see it when you read it properly, is that I, and only I, have had what appears to be a positive result from having the fluvax.
Just because it doesn't work for you is totally irrelevant, and I couldn't care less.
I am only concerned about MY health, not yours or anyone else's. I make decisions based on what I deem appropriate for me.
As always, if symptoms persist, consult your health care practitioner.
Want a really bad dose of the flu that will almost kill you? Come on down and get a flu shot!!
Don't forget your free lollipop.
Thanks OP.
Who should I trust?
- The informed opinions of thousands of medical professionals who use years of training and experience to validate their opinions OR
- The opinions of people with no medical background who use a Google search to pick and choose the information they want to believe which backs up their opinion.
I went with the medical professionals. Got my free flu shot today.
I can't believe someone downvoted you for believing in modern medicine.
Honestly a new problem, or 'trend' in general practice today is patients turning up with pages and pages of information from the internet. The internet has made it so much easier for people to access information, and at the same time, dumbed us down on how well we research and process that information.
I was in an obstetrics clinic last week, and I had look at a pregnant woman's birthing plan. I commented that she seemed really knowledgeable, or informed, on what she wants during birth. The registrar had a look and said it was rubbish (incorrect info, typed up nicely), and that it was most likely straight from the web.
Are you expecting? Congratulations.
lol I'm a guy, student.
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The one at unimelb was only on the 14th :(