OutOfStep
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Several things to consider about the flu shot,
1) The shot contains dead virus' so the shots cannot make you sick (however the new nasal vaccine contains dead and weakend components). You may however feel like crap for a couple days about a week and a half later, thats due to your body's immunologic response to the vaccine, your body is working to develop the tools to fight the flu, but is not actually combating the flu. Kinda like training to run from a bear, you'll be sore from the training, but hopefully when you meet the bear you'll be fast enough to get away before he can get ahold of ya. :wink:
2) The shot only contains certian strains of the flu, strains that the CDC has determined to be of concern, it wouldn't be practical to try and vaccinate you for every known strain of flu. There is also the affore mentioned ~2 week lag. So with the shot you can still get the flu within the approx 2 weeks or if you are innoculated with a strain not covered in the vaccine.
3) The shot causes your immune system to be able to combat the flu effectively when/if you are innoculated with a live strain of that particular flu in the future, whereas antibiotics themselves kill the offending bug (will not kill virus' such as the flu), so the natural selection mechanism is not there to lead to the development of any sort of antibiotic resistant strain of anything.
1) The shot contains dead virus' so the shots cannot make you sick (however the new nasal vaccine contains dead and weakend components). You may however feel like crap for a couple days about a week and a half later, thats due to your body's immunologic response to the vaccine, your body is working to develop the tools to fight the flu, but is not actually combating the flu. Kinda like training to run from a bear, you'll be sore from the training, but hopefully when you meet the bear you'll be fast enough to get away before he can get ahold of ya. :wink:
2) The shot only contains certian strains of the flu, strains that the CDC has determined to be of concern, it wouldn't be practical to try and vaccinate you for every known strain of flu. There is also the affore mentioned ~2 week lag. So with the shot you can still get the flu within the approx 2 weeks or if you are innoculated with a strain not covered in the vaccine.
3) The shot causes your immune system to be able to combat the flu effectively when/if you are innoculated with a live strain of that particular flu in the future, whereas antibiotics themselves kill the offending bug (will not kill virus' such as the flu), so the natural selection mechanism is not there to lead to the development of any sort of antibiotic resistant strain of anything.