Good Idea? Pandemic flu viruses in vaccines and Scientists seek super-shot for flu 100 years after pandemic

Some victims felt fine in the morning and were dead by night. Faces turned blue as patients coughed up blood. Stacked bodies outnumbered coffins.

A century after one of history's most catastrophic disease outbreaks, scientists are rethinking how to guard against another super-flu like the 1918 influenza that killed tens of millions as it swept the globe.

Anyone else find it rather odd we have a really bad flu season on the 100 year anniversary of the 1918 flu that kill 50 million people?

I'm not a vaccine expert but this article peaked my interest.

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Apparently a new swine flu virus was added along with three other "potential pandemic threats". I don't know how many potential pandemic virus have been in the past flu shots but it seems to me like these viruses may pose more of a danger to people than a normal flu virus. Maybe that is why we are hearing about so many healthy children and adults suddenly falling ill and dying.

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I don't trust these vaccine makers I think they are playing with fire by trying to protect us from a 1918 pandemic flu and could very well spark a pandemic by injecting us with pandemic like flu virus where all it takes is one person to get the vaccine and their body doesn't respond to the it so they become a carrier and the virus mutates and becomes a global killer.

But researchers hope they're finally closing in on stronger flu shots, ways to boost much-needed protection against ordinary winter influenza and guard against future pandemics at the same time.

"We have to do better and by better, we mean a universal flu vaccine. A vaccine that is going to protect you against essentially all, or most, strains of flu," said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health.

Labs around the country are hunting for a super-shot that could eliminate the annual fall vaccination in favor of one every five years or 10 years, or maybe, eventually, a childhood immunization that could last for life.

This will never happen, first the flu virus mutates to much so they can't even predict the virus for this years flu season and second the vaccine makers would loose billions of dollars a year if they made a vaccine that protected people for multiple years.

Back then, there was no flu vaccine — it wouldn't arrive for decades. Today vaccination is the best protection, and Fauci never skips his. But at best, the seasonal vaccine is 60 percent effective. Protection dropped to 19 percent a few years ago when the vaccine didn't match an evolving virus.

It wouldn't arrive for decades???

Are they saying the flu was a very rare event that didn't even happen on an annual basis? It kind of sound like they are saying that which means the flu shot is probably spreading the flu more than actually protecting people.

And again they admit the flu shot in ineffective and even more so these past few years. Probably because they added these pandemic virus to the mix that are making people drop like flies.

Sounds like soldiers from WWI brought the disease home and it spread rapidly because no one in the states or europe had any immunity to the virus.

Be weary of these flu shots folks. These pandemic viruses in them sound like bad news. I don't even think they have any long term studies on injecting people with these viruses given the fact that he H1N1 was added like a year or two after the big swine flu epidemic in Asia. Clearly a couple years of study is no where near long enough to deem something safe to inject into the body at lease I don't think so anyways.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/century-pandemic-science-takes-best-shot-flu-52400174