To: chicagolady
With the long lead time it takes to develop the influenza inoculations for any given year, much of the vaccine's effectiveness is based on an educated guess about which strain will be most virulent during that particular flu season. This year, they guessed wrong.
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01/17/2004 1:48:29 AM PST by
Johnny_Cipher
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To: chicagolady
...this season's influenza vaccine failed to protect against the Fujian strain that has caused most cases.As I posted earlier, the media frenzy over innoculation was just an attempt by the government to use up old supplies.
Injecting the vaccine into gullible people is a lot cheaper than having to dispose of it as medical waste.
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01/17/2004 3:30:43 AM PST by
snopercod
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isn't this what they said when it was first distributed?
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