Beginning in 2010 the Swine Flu vaccine has been included in the "regular" seasonal flu vaccine in the US. So, you will likely be charged for the flu shot as you have been in any other years. Many insurance plans fully cover preventive vaccines such as this without costs to patients, though.
The initial vaccinations in 2009 were provided free to citizens by the US Government. Depending on if you got the vaccination at a public health location or at a private provider at that time, you may or may not have had to pay for the administration of the vaccine (the nurse's time to prepare and give the injection or mist along with the cost of the needles and other equipment. States provided locations for totally free swine flu immunizations, but if you chose to get one at your doctor's office or a pharmacy or other for-profit location, you might have been expected to pay a nominal fee.
Yes, they are the same thing.
Most animals are able to fight it off like most people are. There is a vaccine for pigs for one type of swine flu but it is not the same as the pandemic swine flu vaccine.
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No..The vaccine is tho'..
no, it is not, remeber, the vaccine is a dead or weakened version, of H1N1I was just given the shot and have had no reaction to this point.
Vaccine is something you get as a prevention so if you have it you wont get the vaccine anyway. Your country will get enough so every citizen can get vaccinated.
"The shot" is a vaccine for the swine flu. If you get the vaccine, then, in theory, you don't get the swine flu. If you didn't get it, then you didn't "survive" it, because "surviving" it means that you got the disease but didn't die from it. So, zero is the answer. On the other hand, the swine flu is no more deadly than the common flu, so the vast majority of the people who got the swine flu survived it.
Originally in 2009 the vaccine for the pandemic swine flu was a monovalent vaccine, which means it was made to only prevent that one type of flu. Then for the 2010-2011 flu season, a trivalent vaccine was made for the regular flu just like every year. Trivalent means it is made to cover/prevent three different kinds of influenza virus infections. For the most recent flu season in the Northern Hemisphere, the "regular" flu shot contained the vaccine for swine flu and two others. So, the monovalent H1N1 vaccine covered only one type of flu: the pandemic swine flu. But the trivalent seasonal flu vaccines cover three types of flu (one of which, for the 2010 - 2011 flu season, is Swine flu H1N1/09).
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No, I don't think so.
Each flu vaccine is targeted to specific varieties of the flu virus. Unless another type of flu is very similar to the targeted virus, it will not be prevented with that vaccine. Having said that, since the 2010-2011 flu season through to the current 2011-2012 season, the "regular" seasonal flu vaccine, which always contains three types of flu vaccine (trivalent), has included the swine flu along with the other two varieties to which the vaccine was targeted. So in that sense, at least currently, the swine flu vaccination is effective against the regular flu since vaccines for each type are put together in one vaccination.
There isn't a way yet to ''get rid of'' swine flu so to make sure u don't get it just get the vaccine for it