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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 this because, and this is the main reason, the government and the flu vaccine makers want the answer to be 'No.' Few people would take the shot if they thought they would become ill with the sickness they are trying to avoid. But there is no doubt in my mind, and in the minds of many others, that it does in fact cause the illness.

Several years ago, before the flu vaccine was so widely given, before it was so widely recommended, there were more precautions. And if those precautions were followed, the warnings heeded, fewer people were encouraged to take the shot.

I was pregnant. I went to my physician for my regular checkup. After my exam, the doctor was standing with me near the reception area, talking. He was making jokes and laughing with me when a nurse approached. She asked me if I would step over to another area and get the flu shot.

Before I could answer, he said, "No, I don't want her to have it. She's pregnant."

Just after he stated this and she walked away, another nurse came up, grabbed my arm and poked in a very sharp needle. I was suddenly in pain and wondering what I had just been given. I asked the offending nurse, "What was that?"

Her answer, "A flu shot." And she smiled really big as though she had just won a jackpot of some sort. Her smile didn't last, however, as the doctor pulled her aside, an angry look on his face.

The next day, I had a high fever. I felt terrible and the feelings didn't improve over the next few days. Evidently, I wasn't the only victim of her kind of actions because it was announced on the radio that certain citizens should not be given the flu vaccine. Pregnant women were in that category.

I had the worst case of the flu I have ever had, before or since.

You, the reader, will hear that the flu virus is 'dead' and therefore cannot 'cause you to get the flu'. Or as this debate has been labeled, 'cause you to catch the flu' as though you might get it from the next carrier you meet.

You may even hear or read that there is no virus in the vaccine and therefore you 'can't catch the flu from the shot'. Those people who say this will also say that if you 'get the flu' after the shot, it really isn't the flu. It's only your immune system reacting to the shot, you're having an allergic reaction, or it's all in your head.

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