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(NaturalNews) The benefits of influenza vaccines on senior citizens
have been "greatly exaggerate[d]," according to a major review of the
evidence published in the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Researchers examined prior studies on the effectiveness of the
vaccine, and concluded that it is impossible to tell whether flu
vaccines decrease winter deaths among senior citizens at all, let
alone by the vast degree often claimed.

A commonly cited statistic is that flu shots lead to a 50 percent
reduction in winter deaths among the elderly. But the study authors
point out that flu itself is only responsible for 5 percent of winter
deaths in that population, making such a claim absurd.

"We find it peculiar that the claims that influenza vaccination can
prevent half -- or more -- of all winter deaths in elderly people have
not been more vigorously debated," the researchers write. "That
influenza vaccination can prevent 10 times as many deaths as the
disease itself causes is not plausible."

The researchers also found significant flaws in the methodology of flu
vaccines studies. Their greatest criticism was that most such studies
have been carried out with few participants who are in poor health or
over the age of 70, even though this is precisely the population among
whom the disease is most fatal, accounting for 75 percent of influenza
fatalities.

The researchers also points out that while flu vaccination rates in
the United States have increased from 15 percent of the over-65
population to 65 percent since 1980, there has been no corresponding
decrease in deaths from the disease.

"This data support what the naturopathic community has been saying for
decades: That flu shot vaccines are medically useless," said consumer
health advocate Mike Adams. "Their promotion is based on junk science,
exaggerated benefits and fear mongering among the elderly. But much
like everything else in modern medicine, when you peel back the
propaganda and look at what's underneath, you find there's no good
science at all. Flu shots are a medical hoax."

The study authors stop short of recommending that people discontinue
use of the vaccine, stating that "even a partly effective vaccine
would be better than no vaccine at all."