Google Flu Tracker Watching Out For Search Trends

Google Flu Trends was developed with the help of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is based on the number of search queries made about influenza. The company said it noticed that there was a correlation between the frequency of such searches and incidence of the flu.

Instead of the one or two week lag that traditional flu surveillance systems have, Mountain View, Calif.-based Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said its reports will be updated daily. They are available at www.google.org/flutrends.

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[fleaba]

I have a couple of friends who have been extremely ill from the vaccines.

[JuniorNorman]

2007-2008 Thimerosal-free and Thimerosal-containing vaccines
It appears that a significant portion of the 132 million flu vaccines in 2007-2008 season will contain thimerosal but an exact calculation was not found.
SOME OF THIS YEARS VACCINE CONTAINS BIRD FLU DNA!
It will corrupt your DNA for years to come!
There is long term, large population evidence that the flu vaccine does NOT save lives in those over 65. Graphs

The flu vaccine is NOT effective in any age group at preventing the flu.

It is never safe to inject decaying matter mixed with poisons into the human body. See the adverse effects section.

[JuniorNorman]

Oregano Oil, Allicin,PauDarco, Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide, and Mild Silver Protein all fight viriiii.....

[daddyG56]

This website is not going to tell anyone anything about influenza type A or B. It can only identify the prevalence of flu-like symptoms. The public doesn't know the difference between flu and viruses that cause pharyngitis, sinusitis or bronchitis. Influenza makes a person much sicker (fever over 100, dehydration, sore throat an/ or cough, body aches), but lasts a week, as compared to 2-3 weeks for these other pesky viruses.
The CDC website is the straight poop. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluactivity.htm

I find this Google website to be irresponsible and misleading, since it can't do what it claims to be able to do.

[2kids]

So, is Google now in the pockets of Big-Pharma also????? Man, wonders never cease.

[JayZee]

It's the Terrain, Stupid.

Treat yourself to some ascorbic acid (vitamin C) on a daily basis and avoid the effects of chemical pollution aka"The Flu."

The idea of a virus causing disease was purposely spread as a disinformation strategy and now everybody believes in it.

There Is No Such Thing as the West Nile Virus
http://www.naturalnews.com/024754.html

Hazards of chemical weapons release during war: new perspectives.

Lung cancer in World War I veterans:** possible relation to mustard-gas injury and 1918 influenza epidemic. J Natl Cancer Inst.**

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1566814

Feel the Good
http://www.emergenc.com/

[Pam4Waters]

This is just creepy.

[nycelite]

So for kicks if I run lots of searches on google looking for information on the flu, will my region get more flu resources? Maybe schools can have projects where lots of kids run searches just to get the cdc's attention.

Maybe just maybe it isn't such a nifty thing for the most popular search engine to be working hand in hand with a government agency.

[instarx]

Good grief. Go find your tin-foil hat.

[IncensedinNC]

My dad died the day after having a flu shot in 2002. Ok, he was 87, so perhaps it was just a coincidence. But he was in good health and I think the assault on his immune system was just too much at his age. I can't prove it of course, but the pharmaceutical companies and even doctors have a vested interest in giving as many vaccinations to as many people as possible.

[instarx]

Sorry that happened, but there are fatalities with every drug or treatment. Usually the rate is so low that the benefits hugely outweigh the risk, even for most individuals. That doesn't change your personal tragedy, but life itself is risky. There are a very few people who have died in car crashes BECAUSE they were weating seatblets, but that doesn't mean anyone should top wearing them.

[Big0725]

Anybody else just a little perturbed that this sounds really Big Brother-ish?

[BlueZoo]

I hope they're tracking Atlanta! I know seven people, including myself, who have the flu! I'm in the tenth day and feel like death warmed over! btw: I had the flu shot in early-October!

[FrictionSoul]

It's why you got the flu. It's why expert warn that mass vaccination will produce the peidemic that vaccines supposedly protect against.

Get better.

[Big0725]

And that's why don't get the vaccination any more. I got a flu shot 4 seasons ago and it worked so well that I had the flu off and on for 4 months.

It's a money making scam.

[scmucas2001]

I haven't gotten the flu shot in almost four years and I haven't gotten the flu in that many years, either.

I know that sounds like conspiratorial whisperings, but it is the honest truth.

[darthdarcy]

Cool...

[iPolitics]

Spying is freedom.

[Olerist]

Now everyone can be unnecessarily frightened and falsely led into obtaining marginally effective flu shots which can be highly profitable for the vaccine makers (as well as keeping up on having mercury injected into our children and obfuscating the autism numbers).

Way to go Google!

Your portfolios must include vaccine maker stocks.

[FrictionSoul]

Thanks for posting this Olerist. You beat me to it.

Avoid the flu vaccine like the plague. It's based on last year's trends because it takes 6 months to make the vaccine, so they have to guess what strain will predominate.

You'll get better results by simply not eating processed foods, sugar, diet soadas and other processed junk sold as "food". Really. You are what you eat, right down to a cellular level. Two researchers at CU proved this to be the case.

So if you inject yourself with the flu, why wouldn't you actually get it? Think I'm making this up, eh? Then why do health experts always warn against mass vaccination? Because it will cause the very epidemic it was designed to prevent.

Even the FDA classifies vaccines for what they really are: immuno-suppressants.

[Big0725]

Easiest way to keep from getting the flu is to stay away from people that have the flu. Go outside and make sure where you are is well ventilated.

You can eat the most wonderful, macro-biotic diet and if you spend an hour confined with someone contagious, I'll lay good money you'll become sick.

[instarx]

Not eating processed food will keep you frm getting the flu? Baloney (heh heh).

Vaccines are NOT immuno-supressants. They are immuno-enhancers. Sheesh.

[instarx]

Everything is not a conspiracy. This data was available before, just not as quickly.