[quote author="tmare" date=1256462665][quote author="PANDA" date=1256462319]I am just starting to hear a lot about this H1N1 vaccine. Our doctor wants my wife to get the vaccine since she is pregnant, but she's worried about the side effects to the babies. Can you trust this vaccine? I've heard in the news that several nurses will not take it themselves. Scary stuff.
I keep thinking about that scary movie: "Outbreak"</blockquote>
Take a look at what has happened to pregnant women who contract H1N1. I'm sure that there are a lot of dissenters, but I'd take my chances and get the vaccine rather than take my chances without it. Just one person's opinion.</blockquote>
Panda, I second TMare. I heard a very sad story on NPR a few months ago about a pregnant woman in Texas who contracted H1N1, became <em>very</em> ill to the point where they had to deliver her baby a little early and by C-section. Her baby survived, but she did not. I totally respect your wife's commitment to keeping her babies safe, but a <em>potential</em> side effect is not worth completely losing the mother.
I don't mean to be alarmist, but public health is far better in Asian countries that previously went through SARS and Avian flu than it is here in the US. Going through immigration in Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Macau, everyone was scanned with a FLIR by health officials looking for people with elevated temperatures. If your temperature was too high, they might quarantine you. They were that serious about the threat. All US Immigration did was ask for people's papers, asked them where they went, and asked foreign nationals for their fingerprints. There was no health check whatsoever.
Only your wife can decide, but her physician isn't suggesting the vaccine for no reason.