HEALTH

Common Vaccines Might Lower Your Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

Sign me up.

I haven’t had the flu since 1999 — and believe me, I remember it. It was bad.

Since then, I get my flu shot religiously every year. And even with the hit-or-miss nature of the yearly formulation, I haven’t had the flu in 23 years, despite getting it every single year of my life before that.

Did I become superhuman, or is it the vaccine? I’m not going to stand in front of a train to find out.

When I went to work for the county, we’d line up at the administration building like gossipy sheep for a free jab.

Now I have to call around to find a pharmacy that offers a thimerosal-free formula, since that’s the part of every vaccine that makes me wish for death. It probably bothers a lot of people and they don’t even know it.

Maybe that’s the source of the ignorant bleat that “the flu vaccine gave me the flu”.

No, Karen, it didn’t.

Now it turns out that many common vaccines might provide as much as a 27% reduction in your odds of getting Alzheimer’s disease.