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Originally Posted by dacia
So, we should all get a useless and possibly dangerous vaccination because your fiancée is a heavy smoker with weak lungs?
Get real, flu shots are useless. The flu virus mutates every year hence the shots are not effective for the new strain. You've got an immune system don't you, let it fight. And if somebody is stupid enough to smoke to the extent that his/her lungs are weak I have no sympathy.
You should research it, talk to pharmacists before advising "everybody".
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If your theory is right, and I doubt it is, what you are saying is that the new strain comes up and the old ones of yesteryear will simply disappear, right? That seems to be the only way your theory makes sense. OTOH, I believe the old strains are still there which makes the flu shot make sense. Nobody ever said it protects you against ALL strains. Like any immunization, it protects you against known strains.