very few people die from the flu

VERY FEW PEOPLE DIE FROM THE FLU
2004-10-13


OCTOBER 13, 2004. Two days ago, I posted a long piece which made a case for the fact that, in the US, very few people die from the flu.

As of this morning, that piece is still on this page. See bottom story on this scroll. [article now in archives]

John Keller started the ball rolling with a report that exposed the CDC's own death stats---once pneumonia had been broken away from the eternal CDC category called "pneumonia/flu."

Keller found, online, the CDC's flu-death stats for 2002 and 2001. Total for the two years? Slightly more than 1000. Far, far, below the tired old 36,000-per-year figure the CDC trots out at the beginning of every so-called flu season.

Two other readers of this site, John Cullison and Martin Maloney, searched and confirmed Keller's discovery. A third reader came on board with the same results.

Make no mistake about it. This is an astounding find. It undermines and undercuts the US government's ceaseless pounding to "get a flu shot."

So far, no mainstream news outlet has picked up on Keller's report. And, as far as I can tell, very few alternative news outlets have, either.

Of course, if queried, the CDC will tell you that its welded pneumonia/flu category is necessary because, quite often, flu leads to pneumonia.

This is a generality, and as with most generalities, it is passed from hand to mouth without detailed investigation.

Such an investigation would, first of all, confirm analyses of a great number of flu cases in which flu viruses have actually been found in patients (viruses, not antibodies to viruses) in very, very large numbers. (Very, very large numbers of flu viruses in each patient.)

Step two would consist of showing that in these genuine flu cases, pneumonia often follows. THAT would entail isolating pneumonia germs (not antibodies) in very large numbers, in these patients.

Why am I so insistent on the finding of large numbers of germs in a given patient? Because that is what you need to say that the germs are contributing to illness. Just as it takes many people to dig up a huge field with small shovels, it takes many, many germs to contribute to disease in a patient.

(Even then, the map is incomplete, because prior to the "germ invasion," something else has gone wrong with the patient. His immune defense was weakened, as a result of non-germ factors: poor nutrition, unsanitary living conditions, overcrowding, contaminated water, toxic medical drugs, chemical insult, and so on.)

I would be quite willing to look at well-done studies which show, in the manner I have described, that pneumonia often follows flu. I don't mean pilot studies with a few patients. I mean studies that analyze several thousand patients at a time. Show them to me.

Doctors or researchers who say, "Oh yes, I've often seen flu lead to pneumonia," or "Everyone in the field knows that flu leads to pneumonia," are ruled out. That is hearsay and rumor.

Beyond the well-done studies I am asking for, it would be necessary to confirm that flu progressing into pneumonia often results in death. Because that is what we are talking about. Death stats.

At this point, I see absolutely no reason for the CDC to lump flu with pneumonia in one category and list deaths for both as one stat.

In which case, we fall back on Keller's discovery that, by the CDC's own admission, buried deep in its files, very few people die from the flu.

Which creates yet another reason to look with amazement on all this fear-mongering surrounding getting flu shots.

I'd venture to say that, in my brief appearance on the Coast to Coast AM radio show Monday night, only a small number of the 5-10 million listeners registered my mention of Keller's revelation. It was too startling. It came out of the blue. It was against the grain of so much government/medical propaganda.

In the same way, media outlets are hesitant, to say the least, to pick up on this. It sounds preposterous. "Well, if what you're saying is true, then why is the government doing so much to..." "How could this be?" "Why would the CDC trumpet 36,000 deaths a year from the flu when its own figures contradict that?"

I am personally immune to such wondering, because for the last 20 years, as a reporter, I have run into this type of situation over and over.

You would do well to read or re-read my long piece at the bottom of this scroll.

It contains information that is a key to understanding the situation behind the situation we are now witnessing vis-a-vis Chiron and the flu-vaccine scandal of 2004.

John Keller's original report can be found at:
www.lewrockwell.com/keller/keller20.html#

John Cullison's report (which adds details to Keller) can be found at:
www.curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=74&i=576

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

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