OT Flu

[pat sublett]

I never get a flu shot. My wife always does. I caught the Flu New years eve. Now my wife has it. You guessed it, If I had gotten the shot, I would not have caught it and given it to her. Maybe O'gvmt will make us all take the shot in the future and none of us will get the Flu---Right
 

[Hay_Man]

Probably that shot would not have helped you. Hope you and your wife get to feeling better soon.
 

[McBride]

Wrong, A new strain will show up that the current shot will have no effect on.
 

[Hay_Man]

Keeps the Big farma in business. Their best customer guv.. funded programs to save us from the flu.
 

[Wesley Stephens]

I read an article this morning that said flu was rampant in 41 states and the strain was not resistant to the vaccine. Heard something similar last week from a PA. Sounds like they guessed the wrong strain when they made the vaccine, and it is a pretty strong one.
 

[fixerupper]

When a flu vaccine is developed it's aimed at the most prevalent strain, not every strain that's floating around out there. I've only had one flu shot in my life and I haven't been sick enough to put me out of commission for a long time but I'm not around as many people as some of you guys and gals are, so my exposure is low. I'm not against the shot, it just doesn't seem to be a priority.

My mother was partly cripple by polio in 1951 when I was six months old. She also was a nurse, so when I was a kid I was vaccinated for everyting under the sun and then I think there were a few more shots thrown in just for good measure. Ironically, the only thing that took me down was the flu!! Jim
 

[MarkB_MI]

Last year both my wife and I got the flu. It took me weeks to get over it. When my wife starting coming down with it, she went to an urgent care clinic and got a prescription for Tamiflu. She was over it in a couple of days.
 

[davis123]

Im not a doctor but sometimes play one at night. Flu strains have been around as long as the sun. Media really has nothing to talk about right now so they will try to scare us all into a frenzy. What happened to the Swine flu that was going to wipe out half the worlds population? You might get the flu and you might not.
 

[rrlund]

If she got the shot,how come she has it too?
 

[Hay_Man]

Remember the news said the flu shots were made for the wrong strain of virus? So apparently a flu shot isn't effective against all strains of the virus...?
 

[rrlund]

Kinda negates his wife's claim then,that if he'd gotten the shot,they wouldn't have it doesn't it?
 

[Rollie NE PA]

My wife is a nurse in a Medical Clinic. Flu shot is mandatory or you must wear a mask. She said this past week they had a lot of flu cases. I do not get a flu shot, so I don't know if she will drag something home or not.
 

[Gambles]

I had to take my mom to the doctor a little over a week ago and he said that (at least in this area) the "A" strain and the "B" strain that are the most common right now. The current vaccine will protect against the "A", but the "B" is running rampant also and the flu shot is ineffective for it.
Remember that when the so-called flu experts get together to determine what they want to include in the flu vaccine, it is quite often 9-10 months before the vaccine hits the market, so it's always a guessing game. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes it's a complete miss.
 

[tedregentin]

My partner had a flu shot a few years ago, had a really bad reaction to it and doctors were not able to do anything about it. They wanted to do some kind of nerve blocker procedure to him. He will never have a flu shot again. By the way, his wife is a county nurse in WA.
 

[da.bees]