Sentences with phrase «flu shots contain»

Flu shots contain an inactive virus, but even the live virus in the nasal spray version has been modified so that it cant reproduce in your body (and thus make you sick).

Another common concern is that flu shots contain mercury.

Today, flu shots contain three strains of the virus.

The injected flu shot contains an inactivated or dead virus that stimulates your body to produce antibodies to the flu.

The flu shot contains inactivated virus, so it's safe for pregnant women, Dr. Roman notes.

Not exact matches

Because the flu vaccines don't contain live viruses, you can't get the flu from the shot.

The researchers followed the DNA injection with a traditional seasonal flu shot, which contains dead viruses.

Two vaccines for swine flu — a nasal spray that contains weakened virus and a shot that contains inactivated virus — were approved in September, but skepticism and worry about such new vaccines may prevent people from taking advantage of them.

Mercury toxicity could be from eating too much mercury - laden fish and shellfish, mercury amalgam fillings, simply breathing air containing mercury (from coal burning), vaccines and flu shots and contact lens solution.

Despite your OB's concerns on one hand about mercury in fish — while somehow blithely injecting thimerosol - containing (ethylmercury) flu shots, on the other — many women remain confused about the role of seafood in a pregnancy diet.

The flu vaccine contains killed viruses, which means the flu shot can not cause infection.