Show studies or it didn't happen. :)

Flu shot effectiveness can vary from year to year, based on if the
viruses that seem to be most common when the shots are manufactured
actually stay the most common throughout the season.  However, as a
person who regularly had 1 week bouts with the flu every year when I
wasn't getting shots, now that I do get them, I get maybe 1-2 days of
symptoms every year, and they're much milder than I used to deal with. 
More importantly, my wife has a number of health issues.  Any time
anyone in the house gets sick, she is inevitably sick for 2-3 times as long.

Except for once a year, when I have my abbreviated case of the flu.  She
never has any symptoms. 

We get our flu shots together every year.

Joe

On 1/16/2014 4:55 PM, Edward Bowen wrote:
> Flu shots only have a 16% effectiveness and also have a small risk of
> causing major side-effects.  Take them at your own risk!  But they are
> no substitute for strengthening your own natural immunity by eating
> healthy, getting plenty of vitamin C, drinking plenty of clean water,
> and keeping yourself physically fit!  Also that's a good suggestion to
> not expose other people to yourself if you have symptoms.  The more
> you know!

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