Re: The Flu Jab
Originally Posted by
Mups
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I don't know if anyone heard the news today, about this years flu jab? Now they are saying it has only protected 3% of the people who had it.
3% !
So 97% of people who went for the treatment still got the flu.
Did you have the flu jab? Did you get the flu this year?
Mups
I don't think that is quite the case .The flu vaccination is a cocktail of various strains deemed by the WHO to be prevalent in one particular year.
As I understand it this year one strain of the virus was not included in the vaccine so
most people who have had the vaccination this year are protected against those strains which were included but obviously not the one which wasn't.
I was vaccinated in October.