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by Alexius Tan
The answer is - you get the flu symptoms, not the flu virus. The purpose of vaccine is to introduce a foreign body that is harmless so that your immune system will recognize ...read more
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Of course a person can catch a flu from a flu shot. In fact it is quite common and most people will say that directly after a flu shot they are down with the flu about three da...read more
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by Summer Tyme
Can you catch the flu from a flu shot? The question should be, 'Does the flu shot ever cause a case of flu'? The truthful answer is 'Yes' it does. There is much debate about ...read more
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Having been a member of our nation's military for over a decade, and having traveled in that capacity for tens (if not hundreds)of thousands of air miles to remote, less vaccina...read more
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Vaccination works by acquainting the immune system with a pathogen. Once the immune system recognizes a particular invader, it prepares a defense against it. In the case of the ...read more
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by Trudy Graham
The flu vaccine does not contain live flu virus, so it cannot cause influenza. Because the vaccine takes about two weeks to provide full protection, there is still a danger of c...read more
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Influenza is a viral disease. You can not catch a viral disease without being exposed to viable viral DNA or RNA in some form. As the influenza vaccine that is given by injectio...read more
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