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To recap what we have written so far. We have seen that good data do not support the idea that there is only one viral respiratory agent around, that its name is influenza (A or B) and that influenza causes mayhem around winter time every year.
In our Riddles series, we reported on the multiple logical gaps in germ theory. We often cite the failure to infect volunteers during challenge studies at the MRC Common Cold Unit when conditions are ideal for such an infection. A proportion of quarantined volunteers with no history or laboratory evidence of recent influenza illness were not infected by squirting viruses up their nostrils.
Other modes of transmission have not been studied with modern molecular diagnostics, so we are left with the evidence from the kissing and poker games studies to try and understand precisely how these bugs infect or activate (wake up).
There are several problems with understanding precisely what is going on. First, the clinical similarity between influenza-like illness (ILI, a syndrome caused by 200-odd known and X unknown microorganisms) and influenza (caused by influenza A and B) makes it easy to play on the F word “flu”. According to the media and politicians, everything is “flu”, but what do they mean by this term? You cannot identify a particular pathogen by its symptoms, as they are all the same.
In any year, relatively few cases of influenza-like illness are caused by influenza viruses and, as such, would be amenable to prevention by specific vaccines. The two – influenza and non-influenza ILI – are not clinically distinguishable, and even periods of known higher influenza virus circulation are not predictive, as other organisms (such as rhinoviruses, RSV and parainfluenza viruses) are co-circulating. […]
— Read More: dailysceptic.org
