NC Carguy-- the clinic I work in pays for its own vaccine. What they don't give to patients or sell to another clinic they lose on. There in no government hand in it.

motherbyrd2522..still think flu shots are a stupid idea? http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/8890662/

cghsmom....where do these "clinics" get the funding to pay for these shots then? tax breaks maybe? It's TAXPAYER funded.

Baracas, I work at another private clinic. These flu vaccines are bought and paid for by the clinics directly from the pharmaceutical companies. The government has no hand in it.

Also, just an FYI... Fish contains methylmercury, so if you eat a ny kind of fish, you are exposng yourself to higher and more toxic levels of mercury than you are in a flul shot. Also, the following foods have been found to contain mercury: some corn syrups, Quaker Oatmeal to Go bars ,Jack Daniel's Barbecue Sauce ,Hershey's Chocolate Syrup ,Kraft Original Barbecue Sauce ,Nutri-Grain Strawberry Cereal Bars ,Manwich Gold Sloppy Joe ,Market Pantry Grape Jelly ,Smucker's Strawberry Jelly ,Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry ,Hunt's Tomato Ketchup ,Wish-Bone Western Sweet & Smooth Dressing, Coca-Cola Classic: no mercury found on a second test Yoplait Strawberry Yogurt, Minute Maid Berry Punch ,Yoo-hoo Chocolate Drink ,Nesquik Chocolate Milk ,Kemps Fat Free Chocolate Milk http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20090127/mercury-in-high-fructose-corn-syrup http://www.fda. gov/food/foodsafety/product-specificinformation/seafood/food bornepathogenscontaminants/methylmercury/ucm115644.htm

motherbyrd2522...I am curious as to where you got your information. I am a well-educated, smart health care worker who gets my flu shot every year because I am asthmatic, and because I have a high-level exposure risk being in health care. I pray that neither you nor your family members have ever experienced the flu since it sounds like you did not take the shot. It makes people very ill and still causes death in some as well. As far as the flu shot, it does NOT contain a 'heavy dose" of mercury as you put it. Thimerisol is in some of the flu shot supply, not all of it, and that it is in, is in low dose. http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm Under some state laws,any vaccine which contains thimerisol must be disposed of as hazardous waste to protect the environment. Thimerisol and mercury have been the subject of MANY studies. However, Most mercury studies are on Methyl Mercury, not Ethyl mercury, which is what is in thimerisol, and is far less toxix than methyl mercury.