Re:Flu Research Once Banned Because It Was Deemed Too Danger...
by bsder on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:31PM
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> I used to get the flu shot every year, and like clockwork got the flu every year a few weeks after the shot.
Correlation is not causation. You get a flu shot because you might catch the flu (ie. flu season).
> About 5 years ago I just stopped getting the shot and... haven't had the flu since, despite spending time with people with the flu.
If you got flu a couple of years running, your immune system built up a reservoir of antibodies. It has been shown that flu "history" is persistent across years--for example, your body fights off the flus you are exposed to as a child much more effectively than something novel.
Correlation is not causation. You get a flu shot because you might catch the flu (ie. flu season).
> About 5 years ago I just stopped getting the shot and... haven't had the flu since, despite spending time with people with the flu.
If you got flu a couple of years running, your immune system built up a reservoir of antibodies. It has been shown that flu "history" is persistent across years--for example, your body fights off the flus you are exposed to as a child much more effectively than something novel.