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Originally Posted by raptor9k
I don't get flu shots because the two years I actually got the shot I ended up with the flu anyway. I'm not against them, it's just a personal choice.
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Same thing happened to me - I caught the flu in February of '08 while I was recuperating from surgery. The 2007/2008 flu season was one of the "miss" years in the hit-or-miss seasonal flu vaccine. Usually, though, they hit it right.
The H1N1 vaccine is a slam-dunk, though - they identified the virus in April and know exactly what they're dealing with. If you get the H1N1 vaccine and still get the swine flu, it's only going to be because you already contracted it before your immune system could produce antibodies. There's no hit-or-miss where H1N1 is concerned.
I would get it in a heartbeat if it were available here. But right now the meager supplies are being reserved for healthcare workers, children, and pregnant women. As soon as it becomes available to adults, I'll go get one, if I haven't already caught the flu by then.
In the meantime, I have four bottles of Purell in my house and car, and use it whenever I think of it.