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I'm leery of the same recycled metanalyses popping up every few years. I'd take this with a big grain of salt.

Smash hit the nail on the head.

It is **** poor science. However you want to believe because you need to feel empowered. People will talk until they are blue in the face and you won't listen to them because it is not about the science anymore, it is the need to somehow feel like you have a grasp on the situation.

The flu shot is not intended to be a cure all guaranteeing a disease free winter. It only works against specific strains of the influenza virus. If you take the shot shouldn't get any of the most common influenza virus' circulating that year.

Most people, though, who get the cough/sniffles/runny nose during the winter have something other than the influenza. The shot doesn't affect your chances of getting these problems. (hand washing helps, though)

Why should you get the shot? 1918.

As far as vaccinations go the only reason there is even a debate is because most of the people making the choices now have no memory of what life was like before vaccinations. Many of the diseases covered in the typical vaccinations were common and potentially devastating. Heck, 345000 people died from complications of measles in 2005 worldwide.

--dk

If I am correct, I believe scientists have discovered that the bird flu of today is a mutated strain of the 1918 virus. I am looking for a cite but believe someone here will correct me before I find one.