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Originally Posted by MEDISIN
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...
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I read the OP, and I don't have a reading comprehension problem. We can simply agree to have differing opinions on this subject.
