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Grasshopper Green · 10-11-2006, 05:25 PM

I haven't had a flu shot in years, but I got them regularly as a child. I never got the flu until 3 years ago, and I got it again last year. I'm planning on getting a flu shot this year...anything in a flu shot can't be worse than breathing the air in Salt Lake City in the wintertime (anyone who has lived here knows about the infamous inversions). Vitamin C is a good thing, but I'll take my chances with the shot...I never want the flu again...it's horrible.

And on a sidenote...I was always under the impression that vaccination COULD cause illness in someone with an already strained immune system (since a vaccine is an injection of a small amount of the bug)...does anyone know if this is really true?

10-11-2006, 05:25 PM	#14 (permalink)
Grasshopper Green ...is a comical chap Location: Where morons reign supreme	I haven't had a flu shot in years, but I got them regularly as a child. I never got the flu until 3 years ago, and I got it again last year. I'm planning on getting a flu shot this year...anything in a flu shot can't be worse than breathing the air in Salt Lake City in the wintertime (anyone who has lived here knows about the infamous inversions). Vitamin C is a good thing, but I'll take my chances with the shot...I never want the flu again...it's horrible. And on a sidenote...I was always under the impression that vaccination COULD cause illness in someone with an already strained immune system (since a vaccine is an injection of a small amount of the bug)...does anyone know if this is really true? __________________ "They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king" Formerly Medusa Last edited by Grasshopper Green; 10-11-2006 at 05:29 PM..