Researchers found that giving workers a flu vaccine costs more than not vaccinating -- as much as $65.59 per person during one flu season.
Dr. Carolyn Buxton Bridges of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia and colleagues looked at 1,184 employees of the Ford Motor Company during the 1997-1998 flu season and 1,191 during the 1998-1999 season.
Half of these people received the vaccine.
During the first season, the flu shot did not make a dent in flu cases because the strains included in the vaccine did not match the strains that actually circulated that year.
During the second season, the vaccine matched the circulating flu strains and significantly cut illness: 1% of the vaccinated workers got the flu, while 10% of unvaccinated workers did.
Dr. Bridges told Reuters Health that most of the respiratory illnesses healthy adults get during the flu season are not the flu at all.
Vaccination did prevent illness and cut back on doctor visits and missed workdays, but only during one of the two flu seasons studied.
According to guidelines, people older than 65, the chronically ill, and women who will be in their second or third trimester of pregnancy during flu season are some of the groups who should get vaccinated.
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) October 4, 2000;284:1655-1663, 1677-1682
Well folks here we have it again, published in the largest medical journal in the world JAMA. Flu shots do NOT provide the economic benefits they are promoted to save.
Even when the vaccine appeared to reduce the flu (which I seriously question) the cost of vaccination far outweighed the economic benefits. This does not even begin to factor in the health consequences and damage that the flu vaccine causes. What am I talking about? Well, the flu vaccine contains mercury, from the thimerosal, which is added as a preservative to prevent bacterial contamination. Do you want someone to inject mercury into your body or that of your child every year?
So, I would strongly suggest avoiding the flu shot. Follow the diet recommendations to keep your immune system strong so you don't get the infection. If you are a physician you might want to consider using the IV magnesium and hydrochloric acid protocol I put together. It is an incredibly effective way to eradicate most viral infections very easily.
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