With the number of things the medical profession doesn't know about how bodies work, I tend to be skeptical of each new "wonder drug" we hear about—particularly if there is big profit potential for some drug company. Vaccines have always been on my "is the treatment worse than the disease" list with flu shots, because of their "yearly revision" being at the top.

Eighteen Reasons Why You Should NOT Vaccinate Your Children Against The Flu This Season offers some good information to support my position. The following is from point one of the article:

Getting exposed to influenza and developing natural antibodies confers resistance for future flu outbreaks. Artificially boosting antibodies by exposure to flu viruses in vaccines is more problematic than natural exposure. Americans have been exposed to the H1N1 swine flu throughout the summer of 2009 with far fewer deaths and hospitalizations than commonly attributed to the seasonal flu.

Dr. Mercola offers an update.