Don't knock the flu jab – it’s a modern miracle

As the flu season begins to ramp up, so too do the annual complaints about the vaccine

"The flu jab DOESN'T work, officials admit," scolded a recent headline from the Daily Mail.

Meanwhile, in the comments under that article, and in shadier regions of the internet, conspiracy theorists are having their usual annual field day: the flu vaccine actually makes people sick; the World Health Organisation is in cahoots with Big Pharma; the vaccine is being deliberately sabotaged by its manufacturers to drum up business for more expensive anti-viral therapies.