I swear, I have been saying this for years now, every time I get the flu shot I get sooooooo sick. The flus I get last about 3 weeks or more and it's just awful. For that reason, I have stopped getting the flu shot for fear of getting the flu. People tell me it's all in my head, I disagree. I've talked to quite a few people that have the same problem, and they have also stopped getting the shot. Since I have stopped getting it, I don't get as sick.
By the Canadian Press
A senior official of the World Health Organization says there is a lot of international concern about puzzling Canadian data that seems to suggest seasonal flu shots raise the risk of catching swine flu. Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny says the unpublished data are the source of intense international discussions and there is keen interest in getting to the bottom of the issue. The data, from studies done in B.C., Quebec and Ontario, appear to suggest that people who got a flu shot last year were twice as likely to catch swine flu this year. The work, led by Dr. Danuta Skowronski of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Dr. Gaston De Serres of Laval University, is currently in the hands of a scientific journal. Kieny notes that researchers in Australia, the U.S. and Britain looked for and cannot see the same effect.
By the Canadian Press
A senior official of the World Health Organization says there is a lot of international concern about puzzling Canadian data that seems to suggest seasonal flu shots raise the risk of catching swine flu. Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny says the unpublished data are the source of intense international discussions and there is keen interest in getting to the bottom of the issue. The data, from studies done in B.C., Quebec and Ontario, appear to suggest that people who got a flu shot last year were twice as likely to catch swine flu this year. The work, led by Dr. Danuta Skowronski of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Dr. Gaston De Serres of Laval University, is currently in the hands of a scientific journal. Kieny notes that researchers in Australia, the U.S. and Britain looked for and cannot see the same effect.