I think you should get it. Avoiding influenza is a good thing.
As a young healthy woman you probably aren't dancing with death by refusing the shot perse. HOWEVER, if you work with kids or people over 60 or people who are sick or weak you should get it so that you don't contribute to their risk of illness. Spreading death is bad. And yes, that is my professional medical opinion. Death bad.
This is what I emailed my roommate yesterday because she had the same question:
You should get the flu shot. I got my first one last year. You cannot get sick from it, that's impossible because the injectable vaccine contains killed virus. Also, every year they choose different strains of the three main subtypes to put in the vaccine - based on which they predict will be most prevalent that year. So, in theory, if you are vaccinated on a yearly basis, you will be less susceptible in general than if you don't. I don't know how long the vaccine is good for, but you know that some vaccines last a year while others (like chicken pox & rabies) are supposedly good for life. It mostly depends on how good your body's antibodies are... but more than likely you'll have circulating antibodies from your vaccinations for years.
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As a young healthy woman you probably aren't dancing with death by refusing the shot perse. HOWEVER, if you work with kids or people over 60 or people who are sick or weak you should get it so that you don't contribute to their risk of illness. Spreading death is bad. And yes, that is my professional medical opinion. Death bad.
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Do it.
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You should get the flu shot. I got my first one last year. You cannot get sick from it, that's impossible because the injectable vaccine contains killed virus. Also, every year they choose different strains of the three main subtypes to put in the vaccine - based on which they predict will be most prevalent that year. So, in theory, if you are vaccinated on a yearly basis, you will be less susceptible in general than if you don't. I don't know how long the vaccine is good for, but you know that some vaccines last a year while others (like chicken pox & rabies) are supposedly good for life. It mostly depends on how good your body's antibodies are... but more than likely you'll have circulating antibodies from your vaccinations for years.
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