Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: rickman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Vaccinations Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 04:20:33 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 09:18:47 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b6443822665b11d600c80c1d7678cd9f"; logging-data="5519"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX192KyrCAuYp5A/Hz7ULaF3u" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:+Kkh5XxGxRZlIWouktMAVnaLYxc= Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:446620 On 2/7/2017 3:19 AM, Tom Gardner wrote: > On 07/02/17 00:56, Jim Thompson wrote: > >> My father always got the annual flu vaccine... and always ended up >> with the flu. I haven't had the flu since 1964... knock on wood ;-) > > I seem to end up slightly sniffly after the flu vaccine. > I don't get it for /my/ benefit, but to protect my mother > from catching it when I visit her. > > She has the vaccine and doesn't have any symptoms. > There's no justice :) I'm not sure why people think getting a live vaccine won't have symptoms. You are being injected with a virus that is weakened enough that you won't get a full blown flu, but it is entirely possible that you will have some of the symptoms. Many symptoms of an infection are not a direct result of the infection, but from your body fighting it off. You should expect to have some of those same symptoms from a vaccine as your body responds to it much like it would to the flu itself. Some vaccines cause mild symptoms like a rash around the injection site or a scab and if these reactions are missing the vaccine didn't work. -- Rick C