“Someone doesn’t have to weaponize the bird flu—the birds are already doing that.”

“Someone doesn’t have to weaponize the bird flu—the birds are already doing that.” This is one of the best lines in the movie Contagion. [1]   Despite this truth revealed in fiction, a group of  virologists managed to create a deadly airborne version of  H5N1 (Bird Flu) with just five mutations of two genes.  Skeptics pointed out that the flu has failed to mutate this way naturally so far and was unlikely to do so. [2]  However these researchers had figured out a recipe to weaponize H5N1.   "In an unprecedented move, a government biosafety advisory panel has asked the Dutch and U.S. teams, as well as editors at two prestigious journals where their work has been accepted for publication, to omit crucial details about the research 'that could enable replication of the experiments by those who would seek to do harm.'" [3] [4]

FLULAVAL has been tested and does work

This indication is based on immune response elicited by FLULAVAL, and there have been no controlled trials adequately demonstrating a decrease in influenza disease after vaccination with FLULAVAL. (1, 14)[1]

What this means is that the vaccine will generally give you the proper antibodies against the flu, but they have been unable to prove that it will decrease your risk of getting the flu. One should equal the other, but in medicine they have a greater burden of proof. In a trial, more people contracted the flu with the placebo than with the vaccine. Still they have not run the experiment to prove that you are less likely to get the flu or at least they have not put the experiment on the fold out.