Year-end start to our flu season

Cases of seasonal flu have begun to appear in some parts of Western Europe. The flu season in Finland is likely to take off around the end of the year and peak in February during the traditional winter sport vacation period. At present there are no indications that the H1N1-type flu virus that has already made the rounds of the southern hemisphere has mutated, according to Niina Ikonen, a special researcher at Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).

http://yle.fi/uutiset/probable_year-end_start_to_finlands_flu_season/7554724

Also I found interesting the figures of just how effective a flu vaccine is:

According to THL, the vaccine prevents infection in 7-8 out of 10 people of working age who take it. The figure for children is 7-9 out of ten and for the elderly the prevention rate is around 50%.

As the effectiveness of the flu shot...    that 7-8 out of 10 is in the Lab.   They vaccinate you then expose you to the same strain and see if there is a immune response.    They are very effective in the Lab.


However I have seen almost NO evidence of their effusiveness in the real world.   As a matter of fact I keep seeing more research that suggests that the vaccine makes flu worse!