{"id":65081,"date":"2026-05-10T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65081"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:22:29","slug":"91-of-flu-vaccine-recipients-shed-chimeric-lab-made-vaccine-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65081","title":{"rendered":"91% of Flu Vaccine Recipients Shed Chimeric Lab-Made Vaccine Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Nasal_Swab.jpg\" alt=\"Nasal Swab\" width=\"1100\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Nasal_Swab.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Nasal_Swab-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Nasal_Swab-1024x737.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Nasal_Swab-768x553.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A newly published, U.S. government-funded, peer-reviewed study has confirmed that a live attenuated influenza vaccine caused detectable post-vaccination viral shedding in more than 91% of adult recipients, raising major questions about whether vaccinated individuals function as carriers and spreaders of vaccine-derived influenza pathogens after immunization.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published Thursday in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/9c4083fe-e6a5-491d-8d86-a8e68cfde4e4?j=eyJ1IjoieWg4YXcifQ.P5dd96yeNjsZvqxez43LWKLeQBPn8oqoUB630mF8gtY\">Clinical Infectious Diseases<\/a><\/em>, claim that the purported virus inside the vaccine actively replicated inside recipients after administration and was subsequently shed from the nose in the overwhelming majority of participants.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from George Washington University evaluated 283 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 49 who received the intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/610763a1-45e2-4f38-952d-6afa6f4535d3?j=eyJ1IjoieWg4YXcifQ.P5dd96yeNjsZvqxez43LWKLeQBPn8oqoUB630mF8gtY\">FluMist<\/a>, during the 2023\u20132024 and 2024\u20132025 flu seasons.<\/p>\n<h2>Study Only Looked for 7 Days<\/h2>\n<p>Importantly, the researchers stopped monitoring participants after approximately seven days.<\/p>\n<p>That means the study cannot determine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how many participants continued shedding beyond day 7,<\/li>\n<li>how long shedding ultimately persisted,<\/li>\n<li>or when the slow-clearance group fully stopped shedding vaccine-derived influenza material.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/jonfleetwood\/p\/91-of-flu-vaccine-recipients-shed\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/jonfleetwood\/p\/91-of-flu-vaccine-recipients-shed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly published, U.S. government-funded, peer-reviewed study has confirmed that a live attenuated influenza vaccine caused detectable post-vaccination viral shedding in more than 91% of adult recipients, raising major questions about whether vaccinated individuals function as carriers and spreaders of vaccine-derived influenza pathogens after immunization. The findings, published Thursday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;91% of Flu Vaccine Recipients Shed Chimeric Lab-Made Vaccine Virus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65083,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65081\/revisions\/65083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}