The FLU

So last week i got the flu and for a week i was waiting to kill over. Today though i feel so much better......glad i was scheduled for some time off!!! I have not beaten the bug totally but am deffinately on the mend. I got my computer back finally so here i am wondering what to do first.
I guess ill say that this year i opted to not get the flu shot, but from what i hear from the CDC that really does not matter....they were way off on the expected flu strain this season. People keep saying i got the shot...why then did i get the flu. It is an easy answer. The flu shot only really helps if the researchers can manage to predict the evolutionary path of the flu bugs that they have isolated. In this case they were wrong. The vaccine is still worth it's weight in gold though due to the risk of deadly secondary infections caused by exposure to the active virus.
So go ahead and take the ten minutes again next fall to get the shot...if they get it right...you will be a healthier person for it! And no the vaccine does not make you sick!!!!! You only get sick if you have already picked up a similar bug and then your immune system is already on guard..so
you were getting sick already!