Flu Shot Facts

Why do people get flu shots? Because they believe the advice of their doctors and health agencies who recommend the vaccines for most everyone, young and old. Yet, many people are not aware of the real facts behind flu shots -- and their potential ineffectiveness, side effects, and harmful additives.While it’s possible to find some positive data about flu shots, there is a significant amount of data from both mainstream medical journals and alternative media sources that question flu shots’ usefulness and efficacy.



For instance:


"We've got an exaggerated expectation of what vaccines can actually do," said one study author, Dr. Tom Jefferson... "I'm hoping American and European taxpayers will be alerted and will start asking questions."


A study in The Lancet found that even among people for whom the vaccine is most recommended (the elderly), protection can be as low as 30 percent.


Only 36,000 Americans die from the flu infection each year, yet an average of 195,000 Americans have died each year from 2000 to 2002 due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors. This means that “over five times as many people will die because they happen to be in the hospital and are unlucky enough to experience a preventable error, than will die from getting the flu, if the vaccine itself doesn’t put them in the hospital.”The article’s author, research scientist Wilton Alston, sums things up by saying about flu shots, “At best it appears that one is opting to inject a foreign substance with likely only 25–45% effectiveness while hoping that no side-effects occur. (Anyone care to pay for the chance to play Russian roulette?).”

LewRockwell.com October 6, 2007

Almost ten years ago the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Public Health Service joined forces in requesting the removal of all mercury-containing preservative thimerosal from vaccines. Yet just last year a friend of mine after being insured by her doctor that there was no mercury within the vaccinations her son was to have, found out different. You can read her views under Mom Thoughts on the side of this blog.

My question is this: How is it possible that pharmaceutical companies are still today producing vaccinations, including the flu vax that contain this dangerous toxin? Why is it still being allowed after massive research has shown that mercury exposer causes:

Multiple Sclerosis
Central Nervous System Disorders
Autism
Alzheimer's Disease

Then add on the facts above and found in other studies showing that the flu vaccine does not even truly help the way it has been sold to us.

In 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that this year’s flu vaccine had "no or low effectiveness" against influenza or influenza-like illness. Depending on how the data were analyzed, the vaccine protected from zero percent to 14 percent of study participants.
CDC January 16, 2004

In Spring of 2007:

"While tracking the health of nearly 500 children and adults, researchers discovered a rate of resistance to both flu drugs at less than 2 percent in patients with type A influenza, lower than previously reported highs (as much as 18 percent).
What really worried scientists, however, were signs of resistance to Tamiflu and Relenza among patients with type B influenza, a milder strain that causes smaller outbreaks than type A, and, unfortunately, more justification for funding the development of new flu drugs that do nothing for your health.
By the way, the report was financed by the U.S. and Japanese governments and some of the researchers received monies, in part, from a company with an anti-flu drug in development, probably explaining why both nations and drugmakers are interested in keeping the flu scare alive, despite all the negative reports." See full free research paper Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 297, No. 13, April 4, 2007: 1435-1442

I think that the most important thing to remember, when talking about "should you get the flu vaccine" is to know that those individuals who have died from influenza were already sick from other things and had a compromised immune system. The average person out there who is in relatively good health can avoid or recover quickly from the flu. As you will discover throughout this blog of information that I am sharing with you, I will 100% of the time come back to diet and exercise. Keeping a healthy blood system, your intestinal tract clean, proper omega fat balance, and a high amount of natural antioxidants in your body found in fresh (raw) foods and a healthy dose of sunshine is all you really need to maintain good health. There are things that you can do if you should come down with the flu and I will be discussing those in another blog, but I can honestly say that the flu vaccine is not one of the healthy choices.