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The Flu Jab

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Anita

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07-02-2015, 01:07 AM

Re: The Flu Jab

Thanks Mups wouldn't wish it on my worse enemy!

Meg

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07-02-2015, 01:08 AM

Re: The Flu Jab

Originally Posted by Mups ->

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.

Mups

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07-02-2015, 01:11 AM

Re: The Flu Jab

I don't know anymore than what they were saying Meg. It does make sense what you say, but I don't think that was quite how it was portrayed. Why didn't they include the missing strain?

Anita

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07-02-2015, 01:16 AM

Re: The Flu Jab

It's because the flu virus changes all the time, they can only use it as it is when they are making the vaccine but if it changes after that then it can still infect people.

Cold viruses mutate and change all the time too which is one of the reasons people keep getting colds.

Meg

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07-02-2015, 01:19 AM

Re: The Flu Jab

Originally Posted by Mups ->

I don't know anymore than what they were saying Meg. It does make sense what you say, but I don't think that was quite how it was portrayed. Why didn't they include the missing strain?

Mups

that is how it was explained on the radio this morning
and this is why one strain wasn't included..

Phin added: “In Australia, a new variant emerged last summer that we found wasn’t a match with the vaccine.” But he said at that stage concerns that it would hit the UK were “pure speculation”. He also conceded that WHO first detected the strain in March, but even that was too late to produce an effective vaccine in time for this winter.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...-health-strain

It reads slightly differently on the BBC site..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31145604

Meg

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07-02-2015, 01:24 AM

Re: The Flu Jab

Originally Posted by Anita ->

I got the flu this year, and I can honestly say it was terrible, it started on Jan 5th and I'm still not really over it. I had a high temperature and pain in my joints, terrible headache and cough and even stomach ache.
I couldn't sleep properly and was just waking and sleeping at all kinds of strange times of the day and night and having nightmares.
I was barely able to wash myself and do my teeth, was so exhausted and the tiredness has been with me since but is now finally getting better.
.

Anita

that sounds dreadful

I have to attend the asthma clinic next thursday held in the doctors surgery and I am scared of catching the flu there

I hope you are better now...

Anita

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07-02-2015, 01:46 AM

Re: The Flu Jab

Originally Posted by Meg ->

Anita

that sounds dreadful

I have to attend the asthma clinic next thursday held in the doctors surgery and I am scared of catching the flu there

I hope you are better now...

Thank you Meg, it wasn't fun and also the post viral fatigue and feeling of depression which can also go with it.
I think the virus isn't as active now so hopefully you will be ok.
The best thing you can do is make sure you wash your hands as soon as you get home and don't touch your face or eyes etc while you are there as that's the most common way of catching it rather than from people coughing etc.