Dr. Mercola has a good summary on information on the flu vaccine. It is
interesting to note that flu deaths in children increased earlier in
this decade when mass vaccinations for the flu began. The research does
not show any benefits from flu vaccine and shows plenty of negative
side effects.

The majority of health professionals, myself included, do not get flu
shots. So either they are based on political dogma or someone is making
enough money to exert control of the political process. As CDC
officials have repeatedly pointed out to me in workshops, in some cases
their decisions are forced by political pressure and not by public
health concerns.

Dr. Mercola comments:

How Effective is the Flu Vaccine?
Remember that the potential effectiveness of a flu vaccine is dependent
on the ASSUMPTION, made nearly a year in advance, that Asia’s viral
strains will be the ones hitting the U.S. When they guess wrong, the
vaccine is worthless from the very start.
But does that mean they withdraw the flu vaccine when they discover it
contains the wrong strains? NO! They just keep giving it out anyway.
But even if they were to overcome that hurdle and actually select the
correct strains, there’s still no evidence that it does anyone any good
to get a flu vaccine.
Study after study comes back showing the same dismal results: the flu
vaccines are not an effective method of prevention of the flu, and they
do not save lives. As mentioned earlier, they may even be responsible
for an increased death rate in some groups.
Sometimes determining efficacy is as easy as reading the information
coming straight from the vaccine manufacturer.
How about this quote taken directly from the flu vaccine FLULAVAL’s
package insert (which you likely never see when getting the flu shot)
for the 2009-2010 formula:
" FLULAVAL is an influenza virus vaccine indicated for active
immunization of adults 18 years of age and older against influenza
disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and type B contained in
the vaccine. This indication is based on immune response elicited by
FLULAVAL, and there have been no controlled trials demonstrating a
decrease in influenza disease after vaccination with FLULAVAL.”
That’s right, NO controlled trials demonstrating ANY decrease in your
risk of contracting the flu at all after vaccination! (It also states
that each dose contains a total of 25 mcg of mercury.)
For those of you who are still unconvinced, know that there’s plenty of
scientific evidence available to back up the recommendation to avoid
flu vaccines. In addition to studies mentioned in the video, here are
several other examples showing that flu vaccines do not work for any
age group:

- A study published in the October 2008 issue of the Archives of
Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine found that vaccinating young children
against the flu had no impact on flu-related hospitalizations or doctor
visits during two recent flu seasons.
The researchers concluded that "significant influenza vaccine
effectiveness could not be demonstrated for any season, age, or
setting" examined.

- A 2008 study published in the Lancet found that influenza vaccination
was NOT associated with a reduced risk of pneumonia in older people.
This supports an earlier study, published in The New England Journal of
Medicine.

- Research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and
Critical Care Medicine also confirms that there has been no decrease in
deaths from influenza and pneumonia in the elderly, despite the fact
that vaccination coverage among the elderly has increased from 15
percent in 1980 to 65 percent now.

- In 2007, researchers with the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious
Diseases, and the National Institutes of Health published this
conclusion in the Lancet Infectious Diseases: “We conclude that frailty
selection bias and use of non-specific endpoints such as all-cause
mortality,have led cohort studies to greatly exaggerate vaccine
benefits.”

- A large-scale, systematic review of 51 studies, published in the
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in 2006, found no evidence that
the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo in children. The
studies involved 260,000 children, age 6 to 23 months.
Last but not least, I think it says a lot that 70 percent of doctors
and nurses, and 62 percent of other health care workers do NOT get the
yearly flu shot.
The reasons why they opted to not get vaccinated were:

- They didn't believe the vaccine would work

- They believed their immune systems were strong enough to withstand
exposure to the flu

- They were concerned about side effects

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Posted By Jeff Sutherland to Dr. Jeff Sutherland's Electronic Medicine
at 9/26/2009 08:57:00 AM