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I thought the flu shot was supposed to prevent the flu

Texashiker

Texashiker

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A friend of my wife and I got her flu shot around 2 weeks ago. Sunday she was not feeling well, Monday she woke up with a 102 fever, husband took her to family Dr., rapid flu test showed positive for flu.

Dr. gave her some Tamiflu and sent her home

The person in question works the front desk for a city water department. She has face-to-face interaction all day with people, talking about payments, receiving payments,,, is a white female around 35 years old with no underlying health conditions.

She did not want to get sick, so she got a flu shot. I thought the flu vaccine were supposed to prevent you from getting the flu?
 
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Different strain of the flu or it can take 1 -2 weeks for the flu shot to become effective. I would rather have one that not.
 
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Jesus Hume Christ!

The flu shot only protects against certain strains of the flu. If you catch a different one you're going to get sick.


Popcorn, Beer, & a Lawn Chair
 
I stay perfectly healthy without getting flu shots. Anytime something is recommended like that just remember their is money behind it somewhere for some other reason 🙂
 
soulcougher73 said:
I stay perfectly healthy without getting flu shots. Anytime something is recommended like that just remember their is money behind it somewhere for some other reason 🙂
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I stay perfectly safe in a car without wearing a seatbelt. Anytime something is recommended like that just remember their is money behind it somewhere for some other reason 🙂
 
highland145 said:
No. It's a blatant lie by the CDC and the drug companies to make more $$.
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Not sure if serious :hmm:

Getting a flu shot makes it much less likely you'll get the flu, it does not make it impossible. You're trying to play the numbers to come out ahead. There are a huge number of flu viruses out there and the current technology available its not possible to make a vaccine that works for every flu out there. Because of that the researchers have to pick which type of flu will be included in the vaccine each year, based on the kinds that they think will be the most likely to be passed around. If they guess wrong then the vaccine doesn't protect you as well.
 
Here we go again. Why do you keep flogging this dead horse.
It's been explained to you many many times why people can still get the flu after having received the flu shot.


Trolling?
 
Bignate603 said:
There are a few types of threads that are recurring:
1. Religion threads
2. Tipping threads
3. Trident whine threads
4. Vaccine threads
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By that list, its obvious we do not have enough bar-b-que and gun threads.

My wii vs playsation thread got highjacked into a florida marsh grass bar-b-que thread. Does that count?
 
Almost ALL of off-topics threads are recurring.
As I look down the list I see very few original thoughts here any more (one sure sign I spend too much time on Anandtech).
Only if something interesting happens in the news do we have anything fresh to discuss. And a lot of times its shit like Lindsey getting in trouble again which means we rehash the same old conversations over and over until people get banned.
 
brainhulk said:
what people don't know is that to be most effective, you need to combine the influenza vaccine with pooled
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I understand now. To get the most out of the flu shot, the vaccine needs to be combined with pool water?

This makes perfect sense. The vaccine to kick starts the immune system, and the chlorine of the pool water to kill whatever is in your blood stream.
 
oh look a taxesidiot post on vaccines again. this is new and exciting.

there are many different strains of flu's. they do there best to guess wich one is going to be the big one. usually they are right.

getting the flu shot does not mean you won't get the flu.
 
She might have contracted a strain that the shot did not protect against. Every year, the vaccine is based on what scientists think will be the predominant strains for the season.

Barring that, nothing is 100% effective.
 
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