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Vaccine Ineffectiveness

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Excerpts from:
Jefferson, T BMJ 2006;333:912-915 (28 October), Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7574/912

Poor Quality Studies
"Most studies are of poor methodological quality and the impact of confounders is high"

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Excerpts from:
Jefferson, T BMJ 2006;333:912-915 (28 October), Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7574/912

Poor Quality Studies
"Most studies are of poor methodological quality and the impact of confounders is high"

Flu Vaccine Has Little or No Effect
"In children under 2 years inactivated vaccines had the same field efficacy as placebo, and in healthy people under 65 vaccination did not affect hospital stay, time off work, or death from influenza and its complications… Evidence from systematic reviews shows that inactivated vaccines have little or no effect on the effects measured."

"Surprising" Policies
"The large gap between policy and what the data tell us (when rigorously assembled and evaluated) is surprising…. Reasons for the current gap between policy and evidence are unclear, but given the huge resources involved, a re-evaluation should be urgently undertaken"

Mutating strains
The flu virus mutates (changes it's structure) yearly. It's guesswork to produce a vaccine during the previous year against strains which might be prevalent during the next year's "flu season"

Benign Disease Not Worthy of Intervention
Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease of birds and mammals caused by an RNA virus of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses). It's effects are largely temporary and mild.

Flu is MUCH more Benign Than Government Numbers Show
The figure of "36,000 Americans Die Annually From Influenza" has been repeated by public health officials like a mantra and it gets parroted throughout the media as fact. Journalists do not seem to care that it has no source.

Turns out, this figure's origins cannot be found. Nowhere was there a published study explaining or confirming a "36,000 deaths" figure. We looked.

We found the testimony of CDC Director Julie L. Gerberding, MD, on Feb. 12, 2004, who stated that "CDC scientists estimate that an average of 36,000 people die from influenza-related complications each year in the United States."(1) but no publication is referenced and we can find no publication that states anywhere near this number.

Then we found the raw data from the CDC that tells exactly how many deaths occur annually due from influenza and influenza-related complications, and even these are unconfirmed by viral cultures.

National Vital Statistics Reports. Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2003, Volume 53 Number 15 2003
Deaths from influenza = 1.805
http://origin.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_15.pdf (p.16)

National Vital Statistics Reports. Deaths: Final Data for 2002, Volume 53 Number 5 2002 Deaths from influenza = 747
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_05.pdf (p.31)

National Vital Statistics Reports. Deaths: Final Data for 2001, Volume 52 Number 3 2001 Deaths from infleunza = 257
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_03.pdf (p.31)

National Vital Statistics Reports. Deaths: Final Data for 2000, Volume 50 Number 15 2000 Deaths from infleunza = 1,765
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr50/nvsr50_15.pdf (p.29)

National Vital Statistics Reports. Deaths: Final Data for 1999, Volume 49 Number 8. 1999 Deaths from influenza = 1,665
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr49/nvsr49_08.pdf (p28)

Using the figures for the past five years available reports, the average annual death toll form influenza is almost 1,248. 36,000 deaths may sound much scarier, but it's not rooted in science or fact. Likely, it's a publicity thing and they kno

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Scientific Literature Only

1. "Postmortem of a pandemic - A year after H1N1 hysteria"
"The U.S. government alone spent about $1.6 billion to deploy 250 million doses of the vaccine, according to Alcabes—“almost enough for every man, woman and child.” “And there’s no evidence that mass immunization against influenza makes any difference at all to the severity of influenza outbreaks each year,” Alcabes said. ...“The manufacturers of the antivirals made a huge amount of money, and there’s not a shred of evidence that those things are of public health value,” he said. “They were intended as lifesaving interventions for people who experience very severe respiratory distress because of influenza infection, but that’s not the same thing as administering them to a population base.”"
No Author, Michael Scott Leonard -- 2010- 8-27

2. "Vitamin D may help reduce deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic"
"Some vaccines, but not flu vaccine are highly effective at preventing viruses and viral disease. Observers suggest that the timing of the releasing of the report could mean that the CDC has started its annual push for the flu vaccination this year for the next flu season. The estimate of annual flu-associated deaths actually include both pneumonia and influenza causes. Critics have kept saying that the real annual death toll from influenza is about 300."
No Author, FoodConsumer.com -- 2010- 8-27

3. "Flu Plan Scandal Ahead – An Urgent Warning"
"This was perhaps suspected, but when the World Health Organization finally released a list of its pandemic advisors, it finally confirmed that at least five of the key players who influenced the phase six pandemic declaration indeed had financial ties to vaccine makers. As we now know, our tax dollars were completely wasted on these nonessential pandemic vaccines, and it appears as though financial conflicts of interest between WHO pandemic advisors and the industry may have had a great deal to do with it."
Dr. Mercola, FoodConsumer -- 2010- 8-21

4. "Flu vaccine push already underway; first batch causes seizures in children"
"As ridiculous as it seems, retailers across the U.S. are already stocking their stores with Christmas goods. It's all about the big commercial push, of course, since retailers make about 50 percent of their profits during the Christmas season. Similarly, flu vaccine manufacturers generate huge profits during the Christmas season, too, and they've already begun shipping this year's winter season flu vaccines to U.S. pharmacies and hospitals. Never mind the fact that the actual flu strain in the vaccine is little more than a hodgepodge collection of last year's flu strains. Each year's flu vaccines are technically only applicable to last year's flu season, making them perfect for time travelers but useless for everybody else."
Mike Adams, Natural News -- 2010- 7-31

5. " Flu Vaccines, pharma fraud, quack science, the CDC and WHO -- all exposed by Richard Gale and Gary Null"
"Mandatory influenza vaccination has been tried before across a nation. During the 1980s, Japan had mandatory flu vaccination for school children. Two large scale studies that enrolled children from four cities with vaccination rates between 1 and 90 percent discovered no difference in the incidences of flu infection. As a result, in 1987, Japanese health authorities ruled that flu vaccination was ineffective and was no more than a serious financial and legal liability if it was to continue."
No Author, ExpertClick -- 2010- 7- 6

6. "Flu Vaccines, pharma fraud, quack science, the CDC and WHO -- all exposed by Richard Gale and Gary Null"
"flu vaccines remain a mainstay modern medicine only because they provide a reliable source of profits for the pharmaceutical industry which now virtually dictates public health policy thanks to its powerful lobbying resources. And the CDC, for its part, has now become little more than the regulatory branch of Big Pharma, pushing vaccines on the entire population even though the scientific evidence reveals quite clearly that flu vaccines simply do not work. (Vitamin D actually works far better at preventing flu infections, but the CDC won't recommend vitamin D to anyone.)"
No Author, ExpertClick -- 2010- 7- 6

7. ""
"Amidst strong criticism of governments’ responses to the swine flu H1N1 hysteria, nearly half of the more than 150 million swine flu vaccines purchased by the feds for the American public will be incinerated after starting to expire earlier this week. Forty million shots — worth more than $250 million — expired Wednesday and are already marked for destruction. A government estimate cited in various news reports claimed another 30 million doses would go bad soon. Those are not expected to be used either, and will also likely be disposed of."
Alex Newman, New American -- 2010- 7- 2

8. "Ministers 'wasted millions on stockpile of swine flu drugs for epidemic that never arrived'"
"More than £1.2billion of taxpayers’ money was spent on the swine flu pandemic that never materialised, a report has found. The Government was forced to squander vast sums on vaccines based on dire predictions that never came true. But ministers were committed to the spending because drugs giants refused to back out of their contracts. "
Sophie Borland, MailOnline -- 2010- 7- 1

9. "Most doctors don't care to take H1N1 vaccine"
"Only 50 civic doctors out of 800 shortlisted by the BMC for vaccination have taken the shots. As per state government guidelines, vaccination is voluntary."
Jyoti Shelar, DNA -- 2010- 6-15

10. "Report: WHO created ‘distortion of priorities’ over swine flu"
"A new report released today by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) states WHO created “unjustified scares” in last year’s swine flu drama, wasted public money, and resulted in “enormous profits” for certain companies. A report released by the Social Health and Family Affairs Committee of PACE , The handling of the H1N1 pandemic: more transparency needed, was prepared by Paul Flynn, (United Kingdom, SOC). It states that public confidence in health authorities, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union, may plummet, leading to a disastrous situation “in the case of the next disease of pandemic scope - which may turn out to be much more severe than the H1N1 pandemic.”"
Lynn Herrman, Digital Journal -- 2010- 6- 5

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