In a study in Nature Medicine, the team reported that vaccinated mice and ferrets appeared to be protected from dying of the H5N1 bird
flu after receiving the vaccine, even when they developed symptoms.
Not exact matches
Another caveat: It is still possible to contract the
flu after getting a
flu shot since the
vaccine you
receive may not protect against all strains.
After last week's decision by a Manhattan judge calling the city's
flu vaccine requirement «invalid and unlawful» — because the Health Department initiative had not been voted on by the state legislature — Bronx Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz introduced legislation Monday to add the
flu to the list of illnesses children attending state - licensed facilities are required to
receive.
After the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use meeting 19 - 22 October, the agency recommended that everyone regardless of age
receive two doses of the pandemic
flu vaccines approved for use there.
► Why did about 15,000 children in Europe develop narcolepsy
after receiving the
flu vaccine Pandemrix?
That said, you might get a runny nose or slight fever
after receiving either form of the vaccination, but «thats just your immune system responding to the
vaccine — its not the actual
flu,» assures Melinda Wharton, MD, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
I have a similar situation but my neuropathy started
after receiving the H1Ni
flu vaccine in 2012.