This week's New Scientist is well worth reading for the detailed coverage of this year's flu, and how the vaccines do (and don't) work. Interesting how little "big pharma" is interested in flu vaccines, due to lack of potential financial rewards (the opposite of conspiracy theorists' claims) - and the likely human cost. Shame not much of the articles free on the web.
Flu is an underestimated killer, taking more than a million lives around the globe annually. This time, the mutated virus seems to be hitting even harder