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Issue Proposal on the Efficacy of Flu Shots



In recent years encouragement to get flu shots has become a yearly mantra. Elderly, children six months to two years, health care workers and immune-deficient people are urged in the strongest terms to go to their doctors or clinics and get a flu shot. This group encompasses about 98 million people. In the fall of 2004 this was in the forefront of American and to some extent the Western World media with the shortage of this flu seasons vaccine. Current medical wisdom states that flu shots are safe, effective and prevent mortality. A recent study published by The Journal of the American Medicine Association (JAMA) has brought the current wisdom into question. On February 14, 2005 JAMA published the results of a study entitled "Impact of Influenza Vaccination on Seasonal Mortality in the US Elderly Population". The results of the study of thirty years of collected data indicate that there may not be a correlation between flu......

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