{"id":375,"date":"2009-11-03T22:03:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=375"},"modified":"2009-11-04T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T02:06:09","slug":"swine-flu-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Swine Flu Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may make fifty copies of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2009\/10\/ff_waronscience_h1n1myths\/\">article<\/a> to carry around with me:<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe first major fear is that flu shots might actually give people the flu. In the case of H1N1, the concern is primarily with the nasal spray variation, which is made with live virus. (The injected vaccine uses dead virus.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEven health care workers are falling for the <strong>pseudoscience<\/strong> behind this myth. A group of doctors and nurses in New York recently filed a federal restraining order to block administration of the vaccine \u2014 citing a fear that it could cause an H1N1 outbreak.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThough \u201clive virus\u201d sounds alarming, the fact is that the viruses are weakened to such an extent that<strong> they cannot grow or propagate at normal body temperature<\/strong>. Once these \u201ccold-adapted\u201d viruses leave the nose and are subjected to the higher temperatures inside the body, they\u2019re goners. The track record speaks for itself: Live-virus nasal sprays have been widely used for flu vaccination in the US since 2003 \u2014 without incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may make fifty copies of this article to carry around with me: The first major fear is that flu shots might actually give people the flu. In the case of H1N1, the concern is primarily with the nasal spray variation, which is made with live virus. (The injected vaccine uses dead virus.) Even health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swine Flu Myths<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-63","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}