Three Flu Shots This Year; Will You Get Them?

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"Most people will need one shot for the regular seasonal flu and probably two others to protect against the new swine flu.

For the regular flu vaccine, elderly people, health care workers and pregnant women are among the priority groups. For the swine flu vaccine, health care workers and pregnant women are on the list but not older people, who seem to have some immunity to swine flu."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090806/D99TL7401.html

[oramar]

Still a bit concerned about the swine flu vaccine. There are no long-term reports/studies available. No one can be certain there wont be serious long-term effects. If every other drug or vaccine remains unavailable for 10-15 years due to studies and trials, how can they maintain that this vaccine will be safe with less than a year since swine flu hit the news? Either they knew about it long before we did, or they purposely and uneccesarily delay all other meds.

Is it just me? Not much into herd mentality or believing because Big Brother says I should.

They have been making flu shots for many years now. They(the pharmaceutical companies) are using the same techniques to make this vaccine. It is not a untested technology. It is not even the first time they have made swine flu vaccine. There was some problems the first time they made it in the 1970s but since then they have gotten much better at it. I am not saying that there are no risk involved, I am saying I am about 99% certain the risk is the about same as flu vaccines that have been avaliable for years.