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Ain’t never had a flu shot. Drink Apple cider vinegar and a tablespoon of honey everyday and I bet you’ll never get the flu.
Works for me.
H1N1 is so last year (and 1917), but, seriously...I don’t know.
I got a shot at my local gubmint school where I work and now I only want to vote Dem..:=)
The inadequately trained CVS pharmacist extracted only air from the vaccine bottle. Fortunately, I was watching and caught the screw up before getting an injection of air. Then I took the syringe and demonstrated how to properly draw fluid from a vial.
I was told that H1N1 virus wasn’t that new or different and many born people before 1957 are already immune.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm
The seasonal flu vaccine protects against three influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming season. The 2010-2011 flu vaccine will protect against 2009 H1N1, and two other influenza viruses (an H3N2 virus and an influenza B virus). The viruses in the vaccine change each year based on international surveillance and scientists’ estimations about which types and strains of viruses will circulate in a given year. About 2 weeks after vaccination, antibodies that provide protection against influenza virus infection develop in the body.
I got it last week and asked the same question. I was told it was a mix, including H1N1.
There is nothing wrong with the vaccine. I contracted H1N1 last year and wish I had received the vaccine but only got the standard flu shot. I’m not missing this year’s for anything.
I got the h1n1 vaccine last year and so did my two toddlers and we had no bad effects. My two year old niece got the illness last year and almost died from 2 collapsed lungs and other complications from the illness.
Yes.
“Seasonal Influenza (Flu)Everyone 6 months and older should get a flu vaccine as soon as vaccine is available this fall. While flu is unpredictable, it’s likely that 2009 H1N1 viruses and regular seasonal viruses will cause illness in the U.S. this flu season. The 2010-2011 flu vaccine will protect against three different flu viruses: an H3N2 virus, an influenza B virus and the H1N1 virus that caused so much illness last season.”
“Scientists find new superbug spreading from India”
“NDM-1 makes bacteria highly resistant to almost all antibiotics....”
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67A0YU20100811
“Superbug spreading”
http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/2010-09-17-1Asuperbug17_ST_N.htm
9/17/2010 (updated 9/19/2010)
Apparently, the tracking of H1N1 was able to be accomplished without RFID, through vaccine supply, data mining for treatment, electronic medical records, etc., etc., etc. Hitachi’s RFID powder is still a passive recorder, IIRC.
Flu shots are not “ala-carte.” It’s a binary system: You either get the shot with the three strains they pick out this year, or you don’t. Just like every year since they were invented.
They manufacture new vaccine every year, and this year’s contains H1N1 along with other flu strains.
I’ve never had a problem with a flu shot. What sort of problem do you and your wife anticipate?
Negative reactions to the swine flu vaccine is a statistical game. CDC has no viable statistics because of their poor collection of data on the flu and shot reactions last year.
Australia banned the vaccine after analyzing it’s statistical damage along with other European nations.
Do you feel lucky?
Mine did. Got it a few weeks ago. But I had the oink last year so it really wasn’t needed.
There is no such thing as a plain Flu shot, it is always a trivalent shot with the three varieties predicted to be the most risk for the coming year. If memory serves, there is always a bird flu, and swine flu strain in the vaccine. If they had seen H1N1 a little earlier last year, it would have been included the standard vaccine series instead of whatever other swine flu strain they picked.
They are new vaccines but trivalent, not the same vaccines as last year. But they are using the seed strain from last year, which is stupid, as viruses mutate and the H1N1 strains circulating now are quite different from April or May 09 which is when the seed strain for this year’s H1N1 part is from.
Last year people got swine H1N1 even after getting vaxed. It was already a bad match then.
I have gotten a flu shot for the last 6 years and I haven't had a cold or flu the entire time. I don't know what I'm going to do.