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Synopsis: Influenza vaccine is ineffective.
Influenza Vaccine Efficacy Studies [PDF
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Influenza & Pneumonia Cases - Deaths per
Year - This document
details the number of deaths and cases of
influenza and pneumonia that occur
each year as per the CDC's own data.
It clearly shows that there are not
36,000 or more deaths from influenza each
year
(i.e. It is approximately
1,200 deaths per year), and that
following increased uptake of influenza
vaccine in the United States from the 1970s
through the late 1990s, there
was little or no decrease in the number of
cases or deaths from influenza in
the United States.
It also shows that children under the age
of one year
very rarely die of influenza (i.e. there
are approximately between 7 to 12
deaths per year in the entire United States,
annually)
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Influenza Vaccine Efficacy for 2003-2004 -
This document produced
by the CDC shows that last year's
influenza vaccine offered no statistically
significant protection against developing
influenza-like illnesses (i.e.
those vaccinated were at equal risk to
develop an influenza-like illness as
those that received no vaccine).
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Influenza Vaccine Efficacy in Infants - This
document, is a
peer-reviewed scientific prospective study
on the efficacy of influenza
vaccine in young children, conducted by
researchers from
Japan. It showed
that the administration of influenza
vaccine offered no statistically
significant protection against developing
influenza infection (i.e. those
children that were vaccinated with influenza
vaccine were equally likely as
those children that were unvaccinated to
develop influenza).
*Trends
pneumonia and Influenza: Morbidity and
Mortality
American Lung Association Research and
Scientific Affairs Epidemiology and Statistics
Unit , August 2004; Pediatrics International
(2004) 46, 122-125, “Failure of Inactivated
Influenza A Vaccine to Protect Healthy Children
age 6-24months, Taro Maeda, et al.
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