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What if I told you that increasing annual influenza vaccination of the elderly is associated with increased influenza-related death in the elderly? What if I told you that annual influenza vaccination can make you more susceptible to influenza-like illness? What if I told you that deploying leaky influenza vaccines (into either humans or poultry flocks) will accelerate the evolution of vaccine-resistant influenza viruses? What if I told you that the real problem with influenza virus-associated death in the elderly is due to the aging of their immune systems (immunosenescence)? What if I told you that most of the 1918 “Spanish...