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Just a regular American
I've only had 1 in the last 20 years and never had the flu. It appears that the effectiveness is not quite as high as advertised. Put that together with the strains that pop up and they are not in the shot and it is a wonder if they do anything at all. It does look like shooting a person up with a live virus is more effective than a dead virus. I wonder how sick that shot makes you.
World needs to update its flu vaccines: study | ReutersMichael Osterholm, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Minnesota, and his colleagues found that the most common flu vaccine in the United States is effective for 59 percent of healthy adults, well below the 70 percent to 90 percent level previously reported.
A meta-analysis of the 31 studies also showed that a newer type of vaccine that uses a live virus was 83 percent effective in protecting children between six months and seven years old.
However, this type of vaccine, which is made by MedImmune, is not currently recommended as the best treatment for children by the CDC group that decides immunization practices in the United States, the study's authors said.