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When did the flu become a injection?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

What you are talking about is a vaccine that is given by injection so you will not get the flu. The flu mutate all the time so you will need to get vaccines for each new strain.

The first vaccine was used in 1940 during WWII.

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