Flu shot sales go up, but rates of flu infection remain high. What’s going on? Don’t ask the CDC.

Shooting in the dark

I’m sure you’ve noticed that the flu shot is available EVERYWHERE these days. You can get a shot at your pharmacy, your grocery store, Target, Wal-Mart, etc.

Any year now, I expect mailmen and state troopers to start giving them.

Since you can get it anywhere you’re grabbing a gallon of milk or a pack of batteries, it’s no surprise that flu shot sales are through the roof.

So that should mean the number of people coming down with the flu is dropping sharply, right?

Well…no. As early as Thanksgiving last year they were calling the flu season “worse than usual.”

How can that be?

Because there’s a dirty little secret behind every flu vaccination that you’ll never see in all those ads.

Don’t bring a sieve to a flu fight

Every year, you hear about people who get a flu shot but come down with the flu anyway.

This is easily written off. Talking heads quickly explain that no medicine is 100 percent effective. Case closed.

So you’re supposed to not ask questions, roll up your sleeve and take your medicine, right?

Not…so…fast.

New evidence proves what we’ve believed for years — that people could actually come down with the flu because of the shot.

What we now know is that the shot makes them more vulnerable to the other flu strains lurking out there.

For years, Big Pharma and its marketing partner, the CDC, have scoffed at the notion that the shot “gives you the flu.” And technically, it doesn’t.

You don’t get the flu from injecting it into your arm. But the vaccine focusing on “this year’s strain” leaves you wide open to other strains — and even more vulnerable to them.

Two animal studies, one in in pigs and the other in ferrets, proved that flu vaccines made the animals defenseless to certain flu strains.

And now we know the same is true in people.

Researchers found that people who had gotten a flu shot the year before were more likely to become sick with the H1N1 flu the following year.

And don’t look now, CDC, but in that same study, another shoe dropped…

Blood samples from children revealed something amazing. Compared to vaccinated kids, the unvaccinated produced MORE antibodies that offered protection against a wider array of flu strains.

That might not be enough proof for the CDC or Big Pharma or the store manager at Wal-Mart. But for me it clearly answers the question, “Should I get a flu vaccine?” with a big, fat “NO!”

Sources:
“Vaccine-Induced Anti-HA2 Antibodies Promote Virus Fusion and Enhance Influenza Virus Respiratory Disease” Science Translational Medicine, Vol. 5, No. 200, 8/28/13, stm.sciencemag.org

“Mounting Research Raises Red Flag for Universal Flu Vaccine” Joseph Mercola, 9/10/13, mercola.com