Why do they make different ones every year? Why don't they make a shot that works against all the different types, and then no one would need to get another shot, or ever catch the flu again?
2006-09-29 15:03:17 · 6 answers · asked by advicemom 4 in Health ➔ Women's Health
Because the flu virus keeps mutating, and there are several strands of it. They try to figure out which ones are going to be a problem that year and they makes vaccines specifically for them. Sometimes they miss. I remember getting the flu one year even after having the shot because that particular strain wasn't protected against by the shot. But I still take them every year. I had the flu really bad one year. I never want to have it again.
2006-09-29 15:06:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is NO WAY to make a flu shot that is effective against all types of flu.
Each year's flu vaccine is different, and is effective against the
(usually three????) types of flu which are expected to be the most prevalent or most dangerous that year.
There is no known way to make a flu shot which is effective against all viruses, as each virus attaches in a different way, and there can be a virtually infinite number of different viruses and their mutations. New viruses are formed every day.
Any infant, anyone over the age of 65, or anyone with a chronic disease should get a flu shot each year.
2006-09-29 22:13:08 · answer #2 · answered by GreenHornet 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No shots work.
Do not get vaccinated. There is no scientific proof that the theory of vaccination is valid, yet there is considerable proof that Vaccines cause illness and death.
Just sit back and think about it for a while. Does it feel like sense to inject a disease directly into your bloodstream?
The way to avoid disease is to strengthen the immune system. Vaccination weakens it.
The Vaccination Hoax
http://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html
A Detailed history of vaccination
http://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
2006-09-30 20:27:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I always get one. They mutate, there are new viruses each year, they can not make one that will work every year.
2006-09-29 23:17:23 · answer #4 · answered by shepherd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't believe in it.
Its last years strain they are giving you anyways..it always makes you sick...why do I want to get sick!
Its suppose to Not get you sick
2006-09-29 22:06:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i get one cause i work w./ seniors. aleah...is right. the strain thing and everything...i voted for her answer. but my kids got sick and i stopped giving it to them. go figure! but...they have asthma. i dont. i dont get sick.
2006-09-29 22:14:24 · answer #6 · answered by burntvalentine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋