If you get the flu shot does that mean you're less likely to get sick at all?
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No. It means that you are MORE likely to get sick, either immediately, or later in life.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
141033
It's not going to help you this year- but next year be sure to get a flu shot. I haven't had a flu in 2 years, and it's amazing.
845213
The only plus to getting the shot is that most women stop getting their period.  I was on it for a year and I didn't get my period for a whole year.  The downside to that year was that I gained 60LBS!! I also became very weak & tired all the time. I decided to stop taking the shot when I actually did some research on the internet and I found out all of the side effects from women who were on it as well.  I didn't like what I read.  After I stopped the shot I had my period for two months straight and my period was irregular for two years after that.  Also, still to this day my health doesn't feel as it used to feel, I feel like the shot did some damage to my body.  If you really want to take the shot do your research!!
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Well,\n\nA person only gets one flu shot per season, so it would seem to me that the flu shot gives protection for the entire flu season.\n\nThen you get to do it again next year!
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Flu shots have many weird side effects.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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I had the same reaction.  I was perfectly healthy last week, no sign of a sniffle and plenty of energy.  Had the flu shot on Wednesday and by Thursday, felt like I had been hit by a dump truck.  Heavy fatigue, sore joints and muscles, but the worst is that I started having terrible headaches that still plague me and won't respond to OTC painkillers.  I rarely ever get headaches, even when I get a cold, so this is definitely not normal for me.  Today is the 7th day since the shot: the headaches are still bad and unresponsive to medication, I have low grade fever, body aches, heavy fatigue and low morale.  \n\nThe difference between how I felt last Tuesday and how I felt by 24 hours after the flu shot is very scary.  \n\nI've been getting the flu shot every year since the mid-1990's and this is the first time I've ever had any reaction - and I've never had the flu since the year before I started getting my yearly shots.  So this is very disconcerting!
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Actually you can pass the flu 7-10 days before you even have symptoms and during the time you are sick. It is passed through droplet form, good hand washing is a preventative. Gestation is also 7-10 days
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Get the flu shot! You've gotten many good answers. While new strains of the virus are always occurring, at least you can protect yourself from those known. They do NOT make you sick, (per annie7951) If you already have the virus & it's not known, you may "assume" it made you sick, but will actually make your flu less severe when it becomes apparent. Please! I never "bash" anyone on this site, but the comments of "orangen" (something or the other) were erroneous at best as to flu shots being a "money making scheme."  Much bias against pharmaceutical companies (some justifable) but they work very hard on the "new strains" to make them effective. I hate to think of the potential of epidemics if no one got flu shots. I've been taking them for years, have NEVER had any reaction, & NEVER get the flu. Until, if you decide to get one, when you are "out"--stores, shopping carts etc., be careful not to touch your face with your hands & wash your hands THOROUGHLY as soon as you get home. I've seen check-out people coughing into their hands & then handling my items. I always suggest that if they HAVE to cough, (or sneeze), to do so in their sleeve ELBOW if no tissues are available. Pharmaceutical companies even provide vacines one can get free at some drugatores or clinics. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...
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there is no 100% prevention from influenza.The two best ways to assisst you in reducing your chances of getting influenza are: 1) Get your flu shot every year. The flu season is late this year so it is still not too late to get immunized. 2) Proper handwashing technique. Wash your hands in a downward position under warm water for 20 seconds using soap. Be sure to scrub under your nails and in between your fingers. Dry with electric dryer or papertowel and then turn off the taps. If you touch anything -do not put your hands into your mouth before you wash. Cleanliness is the second best prevention. BUT remember there is no 100% protection
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not unless you want to get sick
728615
all the symptoms of the flu actually... the vaccine is just dead flu injected into you. then your body lears how to fight off the microbe again, leading to flu-like symptoms.
981530
If you are infected with hepatitis, then you are going to get sick.  You will not develop immunity to it.\nIf you are vaccinated with a hepatitis vaccine from your doctor, then you can develop immunity.  I know that Hep B shots come in a series.  You have to get three shots over six months and then you will develop immunity.  There is a possibility that your body won't develop immunity, and you can have your doctor test your blood to see if you have developed immunity.
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I do not get them.  I believe they are a waste.\n\nFirst off, the people I know who get the shot end up with really bad colds.\n\nAlso, every year there is a "new strand" of the flu virus that the shot doesn't cover.\n\nSo...you're gonna get sick anyway.\n\nSorry for sounding so pessimistic.  I'm usually not, but I am on this subject.
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Yes. Many people answering questions here have got the flu from a flu shot.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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I have previously passed on the flu shot because when I have gotten the flu (1 or 2 times) it was mostly cleared up 2 or 3 days later and didn't seem like a huge deal.\n\nHowever, I recently moved to DC where I'm now in contact with a lot more people than before, so I figured my odds of getting it were higher, and I started a job where I can't just take off time, so I got the flu shot.\n\nSo to answer you question, I used the same thinking that you mention.  I don't think that there is any harm in getting it.
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If it breaks out, and we have Tamiflu available, then no, if we haven't stockpiled enough, yes, because travel and transportation is easier, so more would get infected.  Also, this flu is supposed to kill 50% of the people it infects.
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Flu vaccination shots administered in the United States are manufactured in Britain.\n\nThe flu shot, or influenza vaccine, is a mixture of dead flu viruses that prepares the immune system to fight the actual virus if it enters the body. It's like giving a search-and-rescue dog a shoe to sniff so that the dog remembers the scent and can find the owner of the shoe. The immune system remembers the viruses in the flu shot, and is ready to attack if one shows up in your body. The viruses are destroyed quickly, before you come down with any symptoms.\n\nGetting the shot does not guarantee that you won't get the flu, but it does mean that you have a much smaller chance of getting sick from it.\n\nFDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) met in Bethesda, Maryland, on February 17, 2006, to select the influenza virus strains for the composition of the influenza vaccine for use in the 2006–2007 U.S. influenza season. During this meeting, the advisory panel reviewed and evaluated the surveillance data related to epidemiology and antigenic characteristics, serological responses to 2005/2006 vaccines, and the availability of candidate strains and reagents. \n\nThe panel recommended that vaccines to be used in the 2006-2007 season in the U.S. contain the following: \n\na. an A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1)-like virus; \nb. an A/Wisconsin/67/2005 (H3N2)-like virus (A/Wisconsin/67/2005 and A/Hiroshima/52/2005strains); \nc. a B/Malaysia/2506/2004-like virus (B/Malaysia/2506/2004 and B/Ohio/1/2005 strains) \n\nThe influenza vaccine composition to be used in the 2006-2007 season in the U.S. is identical to that recommended by the World Health Organization on February 15, 2006.