“Flu Vaccines Need Updating”
The flu season is upon us again, along with the panic pushing the latest flu vaccine. Previous flu seasons have documented the production of ineffective vaccines, massive multi-billion dollar financial windfalls for pharmaceutical companies and an inability to identify timely the actual circulating flu strain (mismatching). Flu is estimated to result in 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths per year but the latest flu strains have been mild in comparison. In 2009, experts concluded that, “There is insufficient evidence to indicate that flu vaccines reduce infection rates or mortality, even in the elderly.”
