Can you really get the flu from a flu shot?

Answer 1

Yes. Many people answering questions here have got the flu from a flu shot.

Do NOT get vaccinated.

A vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.
There are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.
Just sit back and think for a while.
Is there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.
We have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.

The Vaccination Hoax
http://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html


If you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at
http://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm
You will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.

If you want to study the history of vaccination, see
http://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html

Answer 2

Okay, this is really going to throw everyone. The virus in the vaccination is dead- inactivated- so you do not catch the flu from the shot. It does trigger an immune response from the body, though- because your immune system does not know it's dead. One of the effects of the immune system going on alert is the immediate raising of the body's temperature and a general feeling of sluggishness as the body switches over to the production of white cells needed to fight off a potential invader. In short, for a day or so after the shot, your immune system is on full alert and you don't feel like your regular self sometimes. But you do not have the flu. The virus you are injected with cannot reproduce, and will be wiped out by your body within 3 days. Then you will be entirely immune to that season's pet flu bugs, and resistant to the cousins in future.
The vaccination is usually a cocktail of the two or three most prevalent virus strains detected by the CDC. You may still get the flu, but it will not be of one of the kinds you were vaccinated against. It won't help you not to catch cold, either.
Your arm may be sore after recieving the shot because the virus has to be put into something for the injection- and in the case of the flu virus, the carrier liquid is irritating to skin slightly. Also, you don't poke holes in somebody and not have the body notice it. The skin and muscles don't particularly care to have holes poked into them and then have a wad of liquid squeezed in where there is no extra room waiting. Everything has to move aside to make room, small as it is, and then afterward you have a few complaints. Like squeezing one more person into the car- afterwards somebody gets a leg cramp after you all get out.
I do this for a living, and every year it's the same question and objection. You can believe this or not, but you still won't get the flu from the shot. Either you already had been exposed, or you caught a different kind, but it was't from the dead stuff in the shot.

Answer 3

NO, the flu shot is made up of killed virus, not live virus. The live virus flu shots were used years ago. You CANNOT get the flu from the flu shot, even though people still believe you can. What's funny is the flu shot is for the respiratory flu not the stomach flu and people who "think" they are getting the flu from the flu shot tend to "scare" themselves into a stomach ailment. My Grandparents swear every year they get the flu from the flu shot and tell me all about how they feel nauseous and fatigued after getting one.

Flumist the nasal vaccination IS made of live virus and there is a slim chance someone with a weakened immune system could get the flu from it even though the virus if extremely weakened.
48% of people still believe that you can get the flu from the vaccination and it deters many people from getting the shot.

Answer 4

I have gotten the flu after the flu shot 4 yrs in a row like now. It always last for over a week. I will never get one again. 4 times is not about I would get it anyway. It comes within days of the shot every time.

Answer 5

You are being injected with a live virus. You don't actually get the flu but if you already have flu symptoms (you may not know you have them) it may enhance them. Most of the time it's just a bad cold more so than the flu that people have. The shot itself does not give you the flu.

Answer 6

No you can't. They do inject you with the flu virus but it is not active, it is dead. You might feel you have the flu and have some symptoms but you can not get the flu that way. I have had it done for years with nothing more than feeling a bit tired and a very sore arm. good luck...

Answer 7

no
you can get localized tenderness and a slight fever and runny nose with some aches for a day but not the actual flu
that is a myth people do not realize row serious and contagious the flu is
there have been flu epidemics and pandemics killing thousands of people like the Spanish flu outbreak in the early part of the 20th century
flu is one of the leading causes of hospitalization and death in the very young-very old and immuno-compromised population
it is especially important if you have diabetes etc

Answer 8

Yes I believe you can. I got a flu shot a few years ago and within a week I was in the hospital very, very sick. So sick and dehydrated that my body froze up like I was paralized from the neck down. I never want to go through that again so I refuse to get a flu shot.

Answer 9

Yes, because they are actually injecting you with a flu strain to build up a defense for it. Many people get lesser symptons of a cold or the flu, which helps prevent the full blown case of the flu.

Answer 10

No, you will get flu-like symptoms but you will not get the actual virus. You are getting injected with the virus but it is not active it is dead.