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Originally Posted by onwebcam
What if the other family members infected her with the flu from their flu shot flu? I don't get flu shots and the last time I had the flu is after one night 5-6 years ago I was sitting at a bar next to a noticably very ill female. She looked like she was going to die right there, she informed me that she had just got out on leave the day before, received her flu shot that day and that was why she was ill. The very next day began the worst bout of flu I have ever had and the only time I've ever had to see a doctor outside of broken bones or serious cuts my entire adult life and beyond. Also only had a handful of vaccinations my entire life.
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I don't get fu shots every year because I'm lazy and generally don't get sick. But I absolutely "don't" believe you can get the fu from a flu vaccine.
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Originally Posted by onwebcam
she informed me that she had just got out on leave the day before, received her flu shot that day and that was why she was ill
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No disrespect, but you are talking about a girl in a bar. Her expertise was in??? Is she a doctor? Work for CDC? PHD in viruses and virus transmission?
You mentioned leave? Military girl? On a boat with someone else that may have been sick possibly? Maybe she slept with a guy days before who had the flu? My point is that people can say anything about anything with Zero qualifications on that subject other than an opinion that can be stated as a fact or perceived as a fact by the person listening to it.
I believed the same way as you did, when I was a teenager. That was before I went to college, before I took, Science, Physiology1 and 2, anatomy 1, physical science and a few other classes where we were I learned and was tested about everything viruses and vaccines.
Even with knowing all of that, it still feels strange to get a dead virus injected in me and get told that this is a vaccine. But I do trust in science and medical technology.
As I said earlier, my post was not to insult or troll. Just a difference of opinion with a few facts behind it.
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Top 13 Flu Myths
http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/fe...p-13-flu-myths
Flu Myth #3: The flu vaccine can give you the flu.
Flu Myth #3: The flu vaccine can give you the flu.
This is the flu myth most likely to drive experts bonkers. ?There is simply no way that the flu vaccine can give you the flu,? says Hay. ?It?s impossible.?
Why? For one, injected flu vaccines only contain dead virus, and a dead virus is, well, dead: it can?t infect you. There is one type of live virus flu vaccine, the nasal vaccine, FluMist. But in this case, the virus is specially engineered to remove the parts of the virus that make people sick.
Despite the scientific impossibility of getting the flu from the flu vaccines, this widespread flu myth won?t die. Experts suspect two reasons for its persistence. One, people mistake the side effects of the vaccine for flu. While side effects to the vaccine these days tend to be a sore arm, in the past, side effects often felt like mild symptoms of the flu. Two, flu season coincides with a time of year when bugs causing colds and other respiratory illnesses are in the air. Many people get the vaccine and then, within a few days, get sick with an unrelated cold virus. However, they blame the innocent flu vaccine, rather than their co-worker with a runny nose and cough.
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Just Dave