SAY ADIOS TO COLDS AND FLU, Page 1

NOTE: All the studies we will review are tagged with citation numbers like this: [2]
If you “click” on that red number, you will be transported to the actual study.
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Say Adios to Colds and Flu

Cold and flu season returns with a vengeance, slithering its way from November thru April. The Center for Disease Control (or CDC) statistics suggest that the highest incidences of flu occur between January and March, [1] so now is a great time to review the benefits of natural prevention program. We will also review a powerful treatment program, just in case a strange new virus shows up on your doorstep. Let’s start first, by reviewing the efficacy of the flu vaccine.

Vaccination Hysteria

Headlines on the American College of Physicians website once claimed that

“Influenza is the sixth leading cause of death for older Americans,
causing 300,000 hospitalizations and killing 30,000 to 40,000
Americans every year.”

Those statistics are total rubbish!

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) compiles yearly death rates, categorizing all deaths by their actual cause.

During the year 2002, the ACTUAL number of deaths attributed to influenza was only 753. [2] (See p.16 and the table below) AND... almost all of those deaths occurred in people over the age of 75, in individuals who had pre-existing serious health conditions, AND weakened immune systems.

Accurate statistical analyses are complicated by the fact that the diagnostic codes, which classify diseases (known as “ICD-9 codes”) lump flu and pneumonia together in the same sub-section.

That *could* be why ACP made their mistake, although I seriously doubt it.
These folks are part of the team that created the ICD-9 codes.

Here are the actual statistics:

      DISEASE                     # of deaths
      Influenza and pneumonia ....... 65,984
          Influenza .................    753
          Pneumonia ................. 65,231

Shamefully, during the same year that 753 people died from flu complications,
3,454 Americans died from malnutrition — or 13 times as many people!
Isn't it a shame that we don’t immunize for starvation? [3]

Editor's Comment: The yearly National Vital Statistics Report: Deaths: Preliminary Data that is quoted above (Citation #3) has since discontinued breaking out the death rates for "Influenza and pneumonia" into 2 distinct categories, and now lump together the combined incidence, without identifying the deaths caused solely by the flu.

My suspicion is that the vaccine industry "fix" is in, and that CDC (or their admin betters) have made it impossible for CDC researchers like Lone Simonsen, Ph.D. (see below) to continue to rattle their chain.

The Real Story on Flu Shots

Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), which is one of the 21 research departments at the National Institutes For Health (NIH), decided to review death rate statistics over a 33-year period between 1968 and 2001.

Their statistics revealed that there were absolutely no reductions in death rates
between 1980, when only 20 million people got a flu shot, and the most recent
years when 80 million did.

The author Lone Simonsen, Ph.D. concluded that flu shots had NO IMPACT in reducing deaths from flu complications in people over the age of 65. Thus, flu shots appear to be failing to achieve their major objective, which is: saving lives. [4]

The Cold Virus

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* Although these statements may have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration,
they are all drawn directly from the peer-reviewed scientific literature, and that's good enough for me!