Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery ever pushed in the history of medicine

http://www.naturalnews.com ^ | October 14, 2009 | by Mike Adams

[mowowie]

That's pretty weird.
I am by no means a conspiracy nut (I have a close bud who is big time) but i have noticed my short term memory has been crappping out a bit more than usual lately.
I dunno, i just turned 42 but your info is still pretty intriguing.

I don't eat fish, i’m not usually anywhere mercury but i suddenly come down with this serious leg nerve problem?
What a coincidence....

[Mase]

I read the title and wondered who writes this crap and why would anyone believe it?

The NEJM published a study in 2007 (conducted by the University of Minnesota) where vaccination records and hospitalization records for influenza and pneumonia for seniors were studied in three different regions over a ten-year period. They collected data from more than 700,000 person-seasons. The study found that among those vaccinated against the flu, there was a 27% reduction in hospitalization for pneumonia or influenza, and a 48% reduction in death rate.

This reflects the findings of a Japanese study. In Japan, most children were vaccinated against the flu from 1962 through 1987. For more than a decade during that time schoolchildren were even forced to receive flu vaccinations.

The researchers analyzed the monthly rates of death from all causes and death attributed to pneumonia and influenza, as well as census data and statistics on the rates of vaccination for both Japan and the United States from 1949 through 1998. For each winter, they estimated the number of deaths per month in excess of a base-line level, defined as the average death rate in November.

Results: The excess mortality from pneumonia and influenza and that from all causes were highly correlated in each country. In the United States, these rates were nearly constant over time. With the initiation of the vaccination program for schoolchildren in Japan, excess mortality rates dropped from values three to four times those in the United States to values similar to those in the United States. The vaccination of Japanese children prevented about 37,000 to 49,000 deaths per year, or about 1 death for every 420 children vaccinated. As the vaccination of school children was discontinued, the excess mortality rates in Japan increased.

Japan relaxed their vaccination laws in 1987 and repealed them entirely in 1994. I don't know why they did so but their actions resulted in losing what community immunity they had developed and in higher mortality rates.

[Chances Are]

All this is very interesting, but you have to have a link so we can look at the hard data and the methodologies imposed.

I'll trust the numbers, thank you.

As for your last paragraph, is there data available for Japan in the post-1987 (or, post-1994) years? There ought to be a lot of data available. That was 22 years ago.

Thanks for any information-producing links you can send along.

CA....

[Secret Agent Man]

Vitamin D supplements during the wintertime when skin is covered and shorter daylight hours exist. That’s the thing that can keep your immune system up to its normal level of functioning.

[Mase]

Well, I had meant to include the links but, as usual, I was rushing to move on to other things.

NEJM: Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccine in the Community-Dwelling Elderly

NEJM:The Japanese Experience with Vaccinating Schoolchildren against Influenza

[Chances Are]

Thanks. Much appreciated.

CA....