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Dori ignores doctors, says his flu shot got him sick

BY Jillian Raftery  on January 17, 2013 @ 1:15 pm (Updated: 4:59 pm - 1/17/13 )

Dori never gets sick, so when he was totally immobilized this week with a virus, he blamed his flu shot.

It hit Dori around 2 a.m. when he was in Atlanta for the Seahawks game January 13: chills, fever, coughing. He came back looking terrible.

Less than a week earlier Dori got his flu shot because of the many warnings that the Center for Disease Control and the Washington State Health Department have been putting out.

News anchor Ursula Reutin knows better. She asked the CDC and the health department for the real story.

"The viruses that are in the flu vaccine are dead, so they cannot cause infection," says Ursula. "It was actually your immune system doing what it was supposed to do, making protective anti-bodies to kill the viruses in the vaccine.

But Dori has proof to back up his theory.

He had a strange reaction to the flu shot. Hours later a mysterious welt appeared where the doctor gave Dori the shot.

"Right where I got my flu shot on my shoulder it was a little itchy. And I reached over to give it a little scratch, I had a big welt right where I got the flu shot," says Dori. "I had a welt because I had some negative reaction. And then the negative reaction metastasized into the full-blown flu!"

As for the CDC, Dori thinks the experts are just in denial. He'll still get a flu shot next year, but he cautions listeners to make sure not to scratch where they got their flu shots.

"The welt was a mass of poison that was trying to escape through my skin," says Dori. "And I pushed it down and that pushed the poison into my blood stream."

Producer Jake fully endorsed Dori's theory.

"It turned into the flu," says Jake. "How it works, and I'm not a doctor, but once you get the shot it uses the welt as an incubator in your body, it spreads into your body, and the welt goes away."

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Jillian Raftery is a social media captain for the Dori Monson Show. She loves the neighborly vibe of the Pacific Northwest and spends as much time as possible outdoors.
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  • GeekyMom wrote...
    Good Job Dori
    January 18, 2013 10:03 am
    Never let it be said that you let the facts get in the way of your story. It takes to weeks for the vaccine to become fully effective. You were exposed, you can actually be exposed and never even know it. All that being said. I would prefer to go without the flu shot. I do not do well with eggs (food intolerance and find I do get sick if I have a flu shot), but as it is a condition of employment I really don't have much of a choice. But that is a whole other can of worms.
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  • ToldYa wrote...
    flu shots are ineffective and dangerous to your health
    January 18, 2013 10:54 am
    just say no.
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  • Osito wrote...
    Fools Shoot
    January 21, 2013 6:52 am
    My Wife never gets sick. 4 yeas ago she decided to get her flu shot because her dental office had some nurses come to her work and offered it. That same night she got super sick with chills, fever, she looked like a ghost. Never Never again did she get it and guess what...she has not gotten sick since. I'm sorry but I rather belive people's own personal testimony then what the CDC tell's me. Plus do I really want all the ingridients Formaldehyde, Mercury, Aspartame and many more. No thanks!
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  • cgar wrote...
    Flu Shot
    January 23, 2013 10:45 pm
    The true flu kills people. I had it in the 70's, not the little stomach flu or cold virus whatever, but something that floored me. I would not have been able to come to work and complain. Please research the active versus inactive components of the vaccine and for those who get slightly ill afterwards, per the possible side effects which you sign under, that was NOT the FLU kids. If you have never had a true flu that you are being vaccinated for, you do not get it. Dori was at work complaining, and that tells me it was not the "flu".
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