[vetvetdoug]

Don't forget the doctorine of antigenic sin. You have specific antibody to the first influenza virus you contracted that gets reproduced along with the new vaccine strain you get each year. That covers about four subtypes out of sixty four subtypes of this Orthomyxoviradae.

[CathyRyan]

Thank you! aristeides see post # 29

[DAnconia55]

Hmmm.... what does that mean for someone like me? I never take flu shots (not in 20 years), because (Well until this year), I almost never get sick.

When people around me get sick, I recover quicker, and have less symptoms. (Again, except this year - which has been really odd.)...

Should I be taking flu shots?? Does it make me more vulnerable overall because I don't?