can a person get the flu if they had the flu shot?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, yes. There are 2 major reasons for this:

1. There are many kinds of flu. Each is called a "strain." The flu vaccine each year will provide the protection for the most likely strains of flu for that year. Sometimes, you could be exposed to a flu strain that was not part of the vaccine that year.

2. Vaccines confer immunity by activating your immune system against a possible infection. This works a huge percent of the time. But rarely, some people's immune system might not respond and be properly activated against the targeted infection. These people could potentially get the infection anyway.

Hope this was helpful.

Answer 2

Yes. There are several different strains of the flu virus and the Centers for Disease Control try to make their best guess as to which strain is going to be 'the one' for the year and then vaccines are made for that strain. Let's say the CDC guesses that flu strain A is the most active and you get the flu shot for strain A. But you get exposed to strain B, then you are likely going to get the flu and be sick.

Answer 3

I got the shot and immediately had the worst case of the flu! According to the Er here. =o)
It all depends on your system. You may not get it, you may get a little bit or a hole lot!

Answer 4

Yes, the flu shot dose not protect against all the bacteria and viruses that are out in the world.

Answer 5

Yes if the shot did'nt cover the type of virus you are exposed to. They try to predict which types will be going around, but it may be a different strain.

Answer 6

Yes, they can...but they won't have it as bad, and won't get the deadly form of the flu

Answer 7

It's possible, but the illness would be much more mild than it would have been without the shot.