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January 21 2004
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Flu Vaccine Now Officially Documented as Failure

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.

In the study, a questionnaire was sent out to 3,100 health care workers asking whether they had received the flu vaccine and whether they had contracted the flu or flu-like symptoms, and 1,886 people responded. The study was the first of its kind to be conducted by the CDC.

However, some say the study had limitations, for instance only 61 percent of the health care workers responded to the survey, and participants reported whether or not they had the flu based on their own observations, not lab testing.

Researchers say additional studies are needed to evaluate the effectiveness of this year’s flu vaccine against laboratory-confirmed flu and flu-related complications, including hospitalization and death, and they hope further studies will show more favorable results for the vaccine.



Dr. Mercola Dr. Mercola's Comments:

Please don't put your hopes and trust for preventing the flu in a vaccine that doesn't work. You can review my flu vaccine alternative article for ways in which you can authentically avoid and treat the flu.

What you MUST understand is that people are dying from the flu because they are already sick and have compromised immune systems. The ultimate treatment for the flu is proactive prevention. Eat the right foods, avoid the junk, get plenty of rest and stay emotionally balanced--all presented in detail in my new book--and you and the flu symptoms will likely never meet.

Start focusing NOW on eating properly. That means STOP with the junk foods and fast foods, STOP with the sugary foods, the processed grains, and the trans-fats. That means INCREASE the healthy and essential fats like the omega-3 found in cod liver oil, the good carbohydrates like those in vegetables, and the healthy proteins like those in clean, naturally raised meats (i.e., NOT the kind you typically find in grocery stores) like free-range chicken. That means learn your nutritional type as soon as possible so you know what proportion of fats, carbs and proteins are ideal to build YOUR immune system (and help you optimize your weight, and increase energy, and avoid premature aging).

I guarantee that this--and not vaccines and pills--is the answer. I have spent over two decades developing my dietary program, and through my respected clinic it has proven to help tens of thousands of people build their immunity, overcome disease (most far more serious than the flu), optimize their weight and increase their energy.


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