• peoplebeproblems
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    4 hours ago

    Hell I had the vaccines this year. I got the flu (Influenza A), and I became bed bound for four days with peak fever of 104.8.

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      6 hours ago

      The vaccines don’t contain the bird flu strain, right? So yeah, nobody’s vaccinated against this one.

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        5 hours ago

        Bird flu isn’t what circulating generally right now. That’s just the regular seasonal flu. Avian flu is a whole other can of worms in that it’s running rampant among birds, it hasn’t (yet) shown the ability to readily spread in air between mammalian hosts. The longer it hangs around, though, the more chances it gets to evolve that capability – and in fact if the leaked CDC papers that made news recently are to be believed, some strain of on it might have done so.

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    9 hours ago

    this is why I always remember to get my flu shots, and I’m 21. the odds of me dying from the flu are low, but never zero