Re: Follow-Up to Flu Vaccine Predictions


Jay Stallworth wrote:

> Every year, flu vaccine manufacturers have to predict which strains of the
> flu will be prevalent, and the vaccine is a mix of about three leading
> candidates. But if the manufacturers guess wrong, the vaccine is useless,
> and nobody is protected against the flu.
>
> Do the CDC, NIH, manufacturers or anybody else gather data during the
> infectious period of the winter, to see how good the initial guess was, and
> if so, how good is the match between the predicted and actual strains?

Try searching Google with the following search string.
cdc variant surveillance statistics mismatch OR match "influenza virus"
site:.gov
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=cdc+variant+surveillance+statistics&num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=influenza+virus&as_oq=mismatch+match+&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=.gov&as_rights=&safe=off

See CDC also:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluactivity.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5107a1.htm

Obviously, the CDC doesn't want anybody to know just how badly the flu
vaccination industry actually sucks at their job.

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