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No Value in Any Influenza Vaccine: Cochrane Collaboration Study

October 5, 2012 by admin in Featured, Influenza, Science, Vaccines with 100 Comments
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This study is damning of the entire pharmaceutical industry and its minions, the drug testing industry and the medical system that relies on and promotes them. Influenza vaccines produce no benefit and cause serious harm. (Updated article.)Cochrane Logo Over Syringe

by Heidi Stevenson

A remarkable study published in the Cochrane Library found no evidence of benefit for influenza vaccinations. It’s also damns the quality of flu vaccine studies by saying that the vast majority of trials were inadequate. The authors stated that the only ones showing benefit were industry-funded. They also pointed out that the industry-funded studies were more likely to be published in the most prestigious journals … and one more thing: They found cases of severe harm caused by the vaccines, in spite of inadequate reporting of adverse effects.

The study, Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults, is damning of the entire pharmaceutical industry and its minions: the drug testing industry and the medical system that both relies on and promotes them.

In the usual scientific journal style of understatement, the authors concluded:

The results of this review seem to discourage the utilisation of vaccination against influenza in healthy adults as a routine public health measure. As healthy adults have a low risk of complications due to respiratory disease, the use of the vaccine may be only advised as an individual protection measure against symptoms in specific cases.

The Study

The authors attempted to find and investigate every study that has evaluated the effects of flu vaccines in healthy adults aged 18-65. To this end, they “searched Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library, 2010, issue 2), MEDLINE (January 1966 to June 2010) and EMBASE (1990 to June 2010).” They included 50 reports. Forty of them were clinical trials adding up to over 70,000 people. Two reported only on harmful effects and were not included in this study.  Studies of all types of influenza vaccines were included: live, attenuated, and killed—or fractions of killed—vaccines.

The primary outcomes they looked for were numbers and seriousness of influenza and influenza-like illnesses. They also looked at the number and seriousness of harms from the vaccines. The authors attempted to collect missing data by writing to the individual studies’ authors. They describe the response as “disappointing”. In the end, they included 50 studies and refused to use 92, mostly because of highly significant flaws, such as using inappropriate controls, not being randomly controlled trials, inconsistencies in data presented, lack of study design, unclear definitions, poor reporting, lack of crude data, and lack of placebo.

The authors found:

  • Vaccines administered parenterally, that is, outside the digestive tract—which generally means by injection—reduced influenza-like symptoms by only 12%.*
  • They found no evidence that vaccination prevents viral transmission in healthy adults! (There goes the whole herd immunity argument!) This is particularly significant because, as they noted, inactivated vaccines are known to perform best in healthy adults.
  • They also found no evidence that flu vaccines prevent complications, either. They attempted to ascertain the degree of complications, and though they did report on some, most of the studies simply did not address the issue or did so inadequately.

*Please note that the article originally read, “reduced influenza-like symptoms by only 4%”, which was incorrect. The figure has been changed to 12% to accurately reflect the study’s report.

Conclusions

The Cochrane study found very little evidence to support even a small improvement in time off work. Even that finding needs to be put into the context of industry influence. The authors wrote:

This review includes 15 out of 36 trials funded by industry (four had no funding declaration). An earlier systematic review of 274 influenza vaccine studies published up to 2007 found industry funded studies were published in more prestigious journals and cited more than other studies independently from methodological quality and size. Studies funded from public sources were significantly less likely to report conclusions favorable to the vaccines. The review showed that reliable evidence on influenza vaccines is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions and spurious notoriety of the studies. The content and conclusions of this review should be interpreted in light of this finding.

“…industry funded studies were published in more prestigious journals and cited more than other studies…”

“…reliable evidence on influenza vaccines is thin…”

“…there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions…”

Most assuredly, the “content and conclusions of this review should be interpreted in light of this finding”!

Even without taking into account the shoddiness of the studies in general, the authors were still hard put to find any benefit of any sort for influenza vaccinations in healthy people. At best, they found a small decrease in number of days off work. They did not find that the vaccinations had any benefit whatsoever in complications or mortality.

In spite of the limited reporting on adverse effects, the authors did find some, including 1.6 Guillain-Barré cases per million.

The question that must be asked is: How can influenza vaccinations be justified when there is virtually no benefit—not even the oft-cited dubious herd-immunity—and cases of severe harm are documented, in spite of disgustingly limited reporting of adverse effects?

It is long past time to end the travesty of jabbing adults and children without a shred of evidence showing benefit in spite of trying to find it, and with evidence of crippling harm, in spite of trying to mask it.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/lmarkssmith Lisa Marks Smith

    I almost died from a flu shot in Oct 2005. Vaccine Court conceded my case and settled with me. I bet you never saw that on the news. Even though I contacted all media outlets I could find.

    • Jennifer Zampino

      Hi Lisa, I’m very familiar with you’re case as I am reading Vaccine Epidemic at the moment. Thank you for you’re valuable contribution to this important book. I try to warn family and friends about this dangerous unnecessary shot. At my baby’s last 9-month well visit I politely declined the flu shot which they offered!

    • Dulcimist

      Please tell us more. What happened? What were your symptoms, etc….I only had one flu shot in my life and i thought I was going to die….I have never been so sick in all my life!

    • Dulcimist

      Did you ever see the YouTube about the nurse who was a nursing instructor at the time she had a flu shot and now is incapacited from the shot???? She said that she used to administer flu shots to others and now that she had a severe reaction and is bed ridden, she wants others to know what can happen.

  • Erin Douglas

    The only time in my life I have ever had the flu was shortly after the only time I have ever received the flu vaccine.

    • http://www.facebook.com/chris.cole.7967 Chris Cole

      Absolutely. And the only time I’ve ever had a car accident was the day after the only time I’d watched a total lunar eclipse. OBVIOUSLY the lunar eclipse must have caused my car accident… So people, whatever you do, DON’T WATCH LUNAR ECLIPSES…. they’re dangerous!!

      • http://www.facebook.com/jody.nickerson.96 Jody Nickerson

        do they put Thimerosal in Eclipses?

        • http://www.facebook.com/chris.cole.7967 Chris Cole

          So you’re suggesting that thimerosal causes influenza symptoms now? I thought it only caused autism?

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  • jarofstars

    Hallelujah, this report made it out somehow….maybe the idea of forced vaccinatio/vaccinations at all will begin to crumble.

    • Sandy

      I wish. Work for a company that requires it. But, I go to a homeopath. Not covered by insurance but ask me if I care. In case you were wondering — Nope, not one bit!

      • Dulcimist

        You should be able to get an exemption from the vaccination…have you ever checked into it???

    • http://www.facebook.com/tony.rao.92 Tony Rao

      We wish. What will happen as more and more people start waking up to the lie is, vaccine producing companies and their ex-CEOs, ex-lobbyists, and ex-lawyers, employed at top posts in government will try to force vaccinations on the citizenry, through regulations and hearsay, in an effort to keep the dollars flowing.

      Look at what Governors in TX, CA and elsewhere have done with the Guardasil cocktail. They successfully vaccinated thousands of children under the age of 18 WITHOUT PARENTAL PERMISSION. Only after there was a huge public outcry did it stop. Media is in collusion, government is in collusion. Some know it is illegal and do it anyway, others are simply uneducated about the matter and continue to stick people.

      • jarofstars

        Hey don’t pop my bubble! lol. You are probably right, but as more people become educated; I feel somewhat more hopeful.

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  • Sandy

    What makes me really sick is the vaccination of babies now. It was bad enough to pump this stuff into our elderly and most vulnerable adult population. Now we get to study the long-term effects because people are being told GOOD parents vaccinate their children. If I knew then what I know now, I don’t think my child would have received vaccinations. However, now he’s in the military and has probably been injected w/ everything from moon rock dust to swamp water.

    • http://www.facebook.com/tony.rao.92 Tony Rao

      Very very true. Unfortunately, government uses the military as guinea pigs for vaccines, DU, and all sorts of other things.

    • http://www.facebook.com/globalwarrior Diane Lorna Drayton Buckland

      It is shocking, these potent neurotoxic chemical cocktails almost killed my only child 24 years ago and his life was ruined.

    • Dulcimist

      The sad thing is that they even vaccinate pregnant women….purposely to vaccinate the baby while still in the womb…..

      • http://www.facebook.com/hblexrude Heather Blexrude

        St. Agnes Hosptial/Agnesian Healthcare in Wisconsin forced their pregnant employees and employees in general to receive this vaccine or they were fired. Some even had religious exemptions submitted that they denied saying they weren’t sincere.

        • http://www.facebook.com/hblexrude Heather Blexrude

          OH and one of the employees got that Guillain-Barre Syndrome as well!

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  • James

    I would live to be able to repost this and support it but there are no citations. I have no idea who you are and anyone I shared this with would believe I’m a fanatic that believes everything on the Internet is true.

  • Emma

    Why don’t you say who conducted this study?

    • GaiaHealth

      Read the study if you want to know. It’s linked (but you already know that).

  • Emma

    From your link to the study (in the Abstract):

    Influenza vaccines have a modest effect in reducing influenza symptoms
    and working days lost. There is no evidence that they affect
    complications, such as pneumonia, or transmission.

    Doesn’t that directly contradict what you’re saying in your article title?

    • Dulcimist

      I know of a large extended family that all got the influenza vaccine, except one, and she said that the family members that were vaccinated had symptoms much worse than hers…….

    • GaiaHealth

      You are picking at a nit. The fact is that the study also states quite clearly that there is precious little benefit – and that little bit was found from industry-financed studies.

  • Emma

    I’m shocked that the critical comments are being deleted immediately….

    • GaiaHealth

      And you get that idea from where? Did you reach inside your empty head to find that idea knocking around?

      However, you won’t be making any more comments here, as you have used up a lot of space to say nothing of value.

  • Emma

    Hmm…any comment that points out the complete contradiction between what the study says and what you are saying it says is deleted right away.

    Who’s afraid of the truth now?

  • Emmie

    Hmm…any comment that points out the complete contradiction between
    what the study says and what you are saying it says is deleted right
    away. So…who’s afraid of the truth now?

  • Kelly

    From the study:

    “Influenza vaccines have a modest effect in reducing influenza symptoms
    and working days lost. There is no evidence that they affect
    complications, such as pneumonia, or transmission.”

    I think your headline is wrong and sensationalist. You have purposely misconstrued quotes to suit your agenda.

    • / Heidi Stevenson

      As answered elsewhere:

      You are picking at a nit. The fact is that the study also states quite clearly that there is precious little benefit – and that little bit was found from industry-financed studies.

      You pick at nits to suit your agenda.

  • Amelia

    I’m really surprised you would come to this conclusion since the conclusion of the study itself is in direct opposition to what you’re “reporting.”

  • Amelia

    Wow. I’ll say it again, since my first attempt was deleted. You’re conclusion is in direct opposition to what the study itself concludes. I’ve read your article and the study and I think you’re grasping at straws with this one. I’m sorry.

    • / Heidi Stevenson

      Nothing you’ve written has been deleted.

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  • Kathleen Tammaro

    I get 75 health points at work if I get a free flu vaccine! Not if you paid me.

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  • Allyson

    can you post the link to the actual study? :)

  • ellen

    Please sign this petition !

    A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONSWe the undersigned, as Freemen &
    Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health
    Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies
    are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determination.
    Any attempted violation of this trust must be construed as a breach of
    said basic right. We are thus holding our elected Governments
    accountable in this defense with an issuance of notice: a preemptive
    Class Action Lawsuit to be served in the event our inalienable rights to
    choose are forsaken.

    Zie verder : http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/a-universal-declaration-of-resistance-to-mandatory-vaccinations/?cid=FB_TAF_CIT

  • Melmalign

    It seems to me the people who are quick to argue this point are the ones who lack the understanding of literary terms, thus making them incapable of understanding what they read and less likely to step out of the herd of “sheeple” to do a little research for themselves. Keep up with the good work Gaia!

    • http://www.facebook.com/chris.cole.7967 Chris Cole

      And those who are quickest to jump on the conspiracy / anti-vaccination bandwagon tend to be those with poor scientific literacy and a strong tendency for confirmation bias.

      Better education is the answer.

      “Science” is not the collection of technologic end products we know and use every day. Science is the method we use to work out what is true about the universe, and what is unsupported wishful thinking.

      Understanding the methods of science and, by extension, the ability to correctly analyse and interpret data reported by others, is critical to forming accurate and correct conclusions.

      • Miodrag Milić

        “Science is the method we use to work out what is true about the universe, and what is unsupported wishful thinking.”

        Science can not tell you what is true since its not Mathematics (where you can prove things). All you can say that science collect evidences in favor of something. As such, you can never be certain what is true (because evidence can be faked, corrupted, misleading…), and you need to choose your side.

        Vaccines as technology probably have merit, although I don’t believe they are developed in such manner yet. We are not yet understanding even remotely close the effects of interference with microcosms (as shown more and more about antibiotics recently).

        The other thing is that forcing vaccines prevents us (because of limited resources) to find the more effective therapy (if it exists, and I know it does because __in my case__ vitamin C megadose prevented influenza almost completely)

        • http://www.facebook.com/chris.cole.7967 Chris Cole

          Nitpicking, my friend. My use of the word “true” was meant in the sense of the truthfulness of every day facts (e.g. my computer is resting on my desk, the Earth travels in an elliptical orbit around the sun, etc.)

          And yes, science is the method by which we collect and evaluate evidence which either supports or helps us reject a given hypothesis. We cannot prove hypotheses or models in the mathematical sense, but there comes a point when a very high probability is close enough to certainty for non-philosophical purposes.

          There’s still a possibility that the sun is actually some dude in a fiery chariot riding around the world… however, the preponderance of very good quality evidence suggests that it is a very large ball of very hot gases around 150 million km away, powered by nuclear fusion in its core. In your philosophical sense, i cannot be “certain” that the latter is the case, but which possibility do you think most likely represents reality?

          • / Heidi Stevenson

            “And yes, science is the method by which we collect and evaluate evidence which either supports or helps us reject a given hypothesis.” That’s an absolutist statement, a denial that there is any other way of knowing. And that, “my friend” is a statement of religious fervor, not one of science.

            You make wonderful-sounding generalized statements, but they have nothing to do with this issue.

  • Miswest Mom

    After reading the study to which the article refers, I can’t find where it says that the vaccine only reduced influenze symptoms by only 4%. And I can’t find where it says that they found no evidence that vaccination prevents viral transmission in healthy adults. I do see that the actual study says, “Inactivated parenteral vaccines were 30% effective against influenza-like illness if content matched WHO
    recommendations and circulating strain, but this decreased to 12% when these were unknown.” …but I don’t see it reduced to 4% effectiveness.
    I am in no way a fan of the flu shot or any vaccines. But as I sahre this with others in hopes of opening their minds, I want to make sure the conclusions I share (in the form of a Gaia article) are accurate lest you and I lose credibility. Gaia Health: can you help clear this up?

    • / Heidi Stevenson

      I appreciate your vigilance. You are correct – I picked up the wrong item. The correct figure should be 12%. That will be corrected.

      It should, though, be noted that the study states that the vaccines have NO effect on complications – and that’s the primary reason for giving them. That makes clear that there is no actual benefit from the flu vaccine.

      The authors include in their conclusion: “The results of this review seem to discourage the utilisation of vaccination against influenza in healthy adults as a routine public health measure.”

      Combine a 12% rate of effectiveness with untrustworthy studies, and even those untrustworthy studies finding no effect on complications (which are what kill), there can be no justification for the flu vaccine.

      Again, thank you for your vigilance.

  • Midwest Mom

    Oh no! I didn’t want to believe the posters below when they accused you of deleting any posters who seemed oppositional…but was my comment just deleted? I came back to check for a response and my comment is gone.

    • / Heidi Stevenson

      No comments have been deleted. If any are missing, it’s an error on the part of Disqus.

      • Midwest Mom

        Ah-ha…there it is now. Strange. Thank you.

  • sickoftheslant

    I don’t know who is moderating the comments under GaiaHealth, (or who runs this blog) but wow- you really come off as defensive and combative and kind of nasty in your replies to people who question the slant of this article. I would never recommend this article based on your unprofessional manner- you detract from the ideas you are trying to promote by being so childish. I want the facts and some educated background explanations on this issue- but I don’t trust you now to be able to provide that, free of bias. I’ll be looking elsewhere to become educated and informed on this topic.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Erwin-Alber/548856074 Erwin Alber

    Thanks for this! – more evidence to show that vaccination is an organised criminal enterprise dressed up as disease prevention by means of junk science. One would in my opinion have to be a complete idiot to get oneself or one-s children with a flu shot, or any other vaccine for that matter. To be fair, there is a mitigating circumstance: I was a complete idiot for many years as I believed in this lie that vaccines prevent diseases until I came across information which made me realise that vaccination is a massive fraud.

    • http://www.facebook.com/chris.cole.7967 Chris Cole

      Don’t confuse a specific case with unwarranted and foolish generalisation, Erwin. There is excellent evidence for the efficacy and safety of most vaccines. The flu shot has limited utility in healthy adults, but many other vaccines save lives and prevent other serious damage to people’s health and well-being.

      • http://www.facebook.com/ronald.b.blij Ronald B. Blij

        @facebook-1210381735:disqus,
        Dr Suzanne Humphries, a practicing nephrologist (kidney physician) says
        the vaccine industry isn’t giving people both sides of the story, and
        parents need to get informed before subjecting their children to
        vaccines that can potentially cause serious harm or even death
        http://youtu.be/efto1LpWkKw

        • http://www.facebook.com/chris.cole.7967 Chris Cole

          So what? It’s not news that information from pharmaceutical companies with vast financial interests in their products is going to be biased. There is excellent evidence from a variety of non-biased sources that the majority of currently recommended vaccines are both safe and effective. Finding fault with one of them is _not_ sensible grounds for suddenly declaring them all to be useless or dangerous.

          Also beware the lone voice that argues against the tide of scientific opinion, even if they are medically or scientifically qualified. They might be the maverick that’s first to spot something the rest of us have missed or overlooked, but statistically, they are far more likely to be (a) wrong and/or (b) biased by their own personal experiences and beliefs.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/chris.cole.7967 Chris Cole

    Which is why most doctors advocate influenza vaccinations for the current predominant strain only in those at higher risk of complications from influenza. It’s also mildly amusing that rampant anti-vaccination proponents only seem interested in good quality scientific evidence when it supports, rather than refutes, their claims. Check the definition of “confirmation bias”.

    • / Heidi Stevenson

      The only flu vaccine available each year is what doctors recommend – and the vaccine is pushed heavily by doctors every year on everyone, not just on those at higher risk of complications. That vaccine is, at this point, trivalent – NOT focused only on the “dominant strain”.

      • http://www.facebook.com/chris.cole.7967 Chris Cole

        I don’t “push” the influenza vaccine on anyone. I do tend to ask parents why they chose not to vaccinate their child with the other recommended vaccines on the standard immunisation schedule, if they haven’t done so.

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  • Piotr

    Why don’t you read the abstract yourself:
    http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001269/vaccines-to-prevent-influenza-in-healthy-adults

    I think the conclusions are slightly (though not entirely) different than the author here suggests.

  • Anonymous

    I’m recieving vaccination against flu every year since I was six. So far it was 18 times and I have NEVER had flu during those years.
    Also I have gone through every compulsory vaccination I had to and I NEVER had a problem and I don’t know any person that had.
    Even though I went through two year vaccination against acarid alergy (about 20 shots) and it went significantly better with my alergy. Now I can live withou any antihistaminics.
    Now you can see, that sometimes it is actually working. But don’t expect you’ll be healthy if you eat lot of junk food, doing no sports, taking light drugs, smoking, drinking lot of alcohol or being obese.
    Vaccination will not MAKE you healthy, will HELP you to be healthy.
    I love people who have respriratory problems and they were/are heavy smokers and they are complaining how nobody can help them (just for example)

    • lauriej1

      I’ve never had a flu shot and never got the flu — ditto for dozens of other people I know. On the other hand, the ones who were sucked in to getting a flu shot (once) got the flu and swore they’d never get another flu shot as long as they lived.
      The Cochrane study simply verifies what many of us have suspected for years.
      It’s also interesting to note that Canadian researchers noticed in the early weeks of the supposed H1N1 pandemic that people who got a “regular” flu shot for the 2008-2009 winter seemed to be more likely to get infected with the pandemic virus than people who hadn’t received a flu shot.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Golfbrat Donna Newby Hayes

    My work is pushing hard for everyone to get the vaccine, if we don’t we have to wear masks at work. I’m 47 years old and have had the flu once when I was in the 7th grade. I’ve never had the flu vaccine… Guess I’ll be wearing a mask

  • cookielee

    I was vaccine injured 21 years ago. I was hospitalized with 105 temperature and was unable to move. I will never take another vaccine. Everyone should decide for themselves if they are willing to take a vaccine. Now I take beyond tangy tangerine liquid nutrition to build my immune system.

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