Thread: Flu Shots
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Old 12-31-2013, 07:23 AM
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I think the "shot" is developed to combat only one strain --say H1N1, so it gives pretty good protection against that strain...however, if you come into contact with
H1N2....you are not protected.
Wrong. The shot is to fight several strains. They are, however, forecasting which strains and sometimes aren't right. They may not be 100% but they are a damn sight better than 0% right.

Remember that a lot of the flue shot is not for yourself, but for those vulnerable around you... the babies, the children, the elderly.

I laugh at all those (and nurses are especially bad) "I got the flue shot and got sick afterwards". Yup. And you were going to get sick. You probably didn't get sick from the flue's in the vaccine. Hell. You probably had the common cold rather than the flue. Two different things.
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