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Originally Posted by Chris
We should have sufficient vaccine for the entire population before then.
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Hmmmm,
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The viruses in the flu shot are killed (inactivated), so you cannot get the flu from a flu shot. The risk of a flu shot causing serious harm, or death, is extremely small. However, a vaccine, like any medicine, may rarely cause serious problems, such as severe allergic reactions. Almost all people who get influenza vaccine have no serious problems from it.
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As in one death, of someone with numerous underlying health issues, out of 5000 or so small?
I think unless people start dropping like flies I might just take my chances with the virus in the wild.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8024240.stm
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Originally Posted by BBC News
Safety is - unsurprisingly - paramount, as vaccines can often be worse than the disease they are trying to combat.
An outbreak of swine flu in 1976 infected 200 people in the US. Only one of them died, but a vaccine administered to 40m people killed 25 and led to 500 others developing Guillain-Barre syndrome, which can be fatal.
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