Recent Comments on Sooke News Mirror (Victoria News) Let’s see, we’ve had the 1918 flu, the Asian flu, the Spanish flu, the avian flu, and now the swine flu. Flu outbreaks over the last 100 years have killed millions of people, it’s nothing new or unexpected. And as each one comes along, so does another vaccine. [News Source]

Seasonal flu vaccine ups risk of pandemic flu. Earlier this year, Dutch scientists showed that vaccinating mice against seasonal strains of flu rendered the animals unnecessarily vulnerable to dying if they later encountered a pandemic flu strain. [News Source]