Are flu jabs beneficial?
847 views · Published 7 May 2012 · 8:18 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Newshub · 2012 · News & Politics
Have you had your flu jab? If not, why not? Vaccinations work. It is impossible to know how many people died of smallpox, but it would be well into the hundreds of millions. Killed by an infectious disease that vaccines eliminated from the world. In 1918, between 50 million and 100 million people died of the flu. Yesterday the nurse came to TV3 to give the staff their jabs and it had the Campbell Live office divided; to jab or not to jab? Tristram Clayton was in one corner, Anna Burns-Francis in the other. Tonight, they go head-to-head to find out whether it's a virus worth its vaccine. Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/Are-flu-jabs-beneficial/tabid/817/articleID/250944/Default.aspx#ixzz1u9PPxmtU