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Originally Posted by Abygale
I'm glad you came through it okay. The only time I got the flu in the last 15 years is when I got a flu vaccine. Some people don't realize that you are actually getting the live virus put into you when you get those shots. I personally don't think this round of vaccine received enough testing, but that's another subject. End of the day, I'm just very happy that you pulled through!  |
You received a live attenuated virus which would have given you some aches and pains but was NOTHING like full-borne influenza. If you truly did have influenza then you were exposed to it in the community in addition to receiving the vaccine. Remember it takes a couple of weeks to mount an immune response and get those antibodies circulating.
As for testing a vaccine against a virus that changes with geography and time, there are too many constraints to evaluate a vaccine the way we evaluate other biologics. We're forced to do the best we can with the little time we have. Yes there is some inherrant risk, but go back and read the OP...