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Originally Posted by 2dieseljohn
The flu vaccines only contain dead virus, and a dead virus is, well, dead: it can’t infect you. There is one type of live virus flu vaccine, the nasal vaccine, FluMist. But in this case, the virus is specially engineered to remove the parts of the virus that make people sick.
This is the biggest myth I hear in healthcare. If you get sick after getting the shot it was because you were already getting sick.
I work (as a Paramedic) and I see other Medics get sick from not getting the shot and then come to work and spread it to the already sick and old.
I wish I could fire them for being to dense to understand simple science.
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Just because it doesn't cause an active infection doesn't mean you won't get sick. I've seen plenty of people who were asymptomatic get bad flu symptoms shortly after getting a flu shot, and not just once. The same people would have the same reaction year after year.
One of my jobs requires flu vaccination as a condition of employment. Most people get the mist. Unfortunately, the mist makes me sick (three years in a row, hella sick three years in a row-no more for me). Fortunately I've figured out what to write on the forms to get the shot, which doesn't bother me.
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