flu vaccine

Originally posted by Menta ↑

..I talked about how one study found that getting the seasonal influenza vaccine was associated with an increased risk of infection with the pandemic influenza A(H1N1) "swine flu".

As I explained, this is due to the opportunity cost of vaccination; specifically, the lost opportunity to develop a much more robust immunity to influenza through natural infection.

I've got another very insightful study for you to bookmark or save to your research archive.

The study is titled "Annual Vaccination against Influenza Virus Hampers Development of Virus-Specific CD8+ T Cell Immunity in Children" and was published in the Journal of Virology in November 2011.

The authors pointed out that, while seasonal influenza vaccines were designed to confer humoral immunity against influenza A(H3N2), A(H1N1), and B viruses, they "inefficiently induce protective immunity to other influenza A virus subtypes" such as avian influenza A(H5N1), or the "bird flu".

As they explained, seasonal influenza vaccination "prevented the development of influenza A virus-specific CD8+ T cell immunity otherwise induced by infection." These immune cells, unlike the antibodies stimulated by the vaccine, would provide protection against not only the infecting strain of influenza, but other subtypes as well.

Annual vaccination for influenza, the authors concluded, "may render young children who have not previously been infected with an influenza virus more susceptible to infection with a pandemic influenza virus of a novel subtype." (Emphasis added.)

Click here to read the study.

You'd think this consequence of vaccination, which has implications for other vaccines as well as the flu shot, would be considered important for the public to be aware of. And yet when was the last time you ever read about it in a CDC press release or a New York Times article?

Never!

Why is that?

Well, there are numerous factors that help explain this miserable failure by the government and mainstream media to properly inform. Actually "failure" is the wrong word, since it implies intent to inform, when, actually, both public health officials and mainstream commentators seem more intent on keeping the public misinformed.

Think that's just hyperbole? It's not. I'm being serious, and I mean that literally. Here's an incontrovertible example of the Times making a concerted effort to misinform its readers by grossly mischaracterizing its own sources from the medical literature in order to manufacture consent for public vaccine policy:

Should You Get the Flu Shot Every Year? Don’t Ask the New York Times.

And while the media is fond of dismissing anyone who questions official dogma as a "conspiracy theorist", I am also not proposing any such thing. On the contrary, this phenomenon can be explained by willful blindness, as I explain here: How the CDC Uses Fear and Deception to Sell More Flu Vaccines

Jeremy R. Hammond
Independent Analyst & Author
www.jeremyrhammond.com

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From that study:

Click here to read the study.

Unfortunately, the authors appear grovel in the last paragraph.

They probably all know what happens to those who question the almighty vaccine dogma..... probably worried they'll never get funding again......