Can you get sick from someone who got the flu shot?

Answer 1

The H1N1/09 vaccines used in healthy people have a rate of approximately 92 to 98% effectiveness. For people who are immunosuppressed either from disease or from medications that affect their immune systems, a diminished immune response can leave them without full immunity. For them, continuing to use the precautions to prevent the flu is important even after having a vaccination. If they are in a situation of known exposure to the virus, they may benefit if anti-viral medications are started as soon as possible after the exposure to prevent the infection.

Answer 2

Getting the flu vaccine does help but sometimes it gets you sick. Getting sick from the flu vaccine isn't very common though. In case you touch an infected person or surface and you have had the vaccine you could get sick. The vaccine is suppose to help you but for others it might not. The vaccine is a the first recommendation from most doctors to prevent getting sick. I hope this answer helped you!

There is not one "type" of flu. Influenza actually comes in a variety of different genetic strains. A typical flu vaccine contains the dead (or deactivated) remains of several of the most currently prevalent strains, so it triggers the body's immune response to build up antibodies to those strains of flu. However, it entirely possible to be infected by a different strain. It's an odds game - the vaccine can only cover so many different strains, so they make one that covers 90-95% of the ones currently going around. Flu mutates rapidly, so immunity seldom lasts more than one flu season, which is why it is important to get a yearly vaccine, to protect against the strains that are prevalent this year.

Also, as mentioned above, a very small number of folks who get the flu vaccine actually catch the flu from the vaccine (their body is unable to produce the proper antibodies, and thus, the vaccine actually gives you the flu). This is why it isn't given to anyone with a compromised immune system. Normal, healthy people have nothing to fear, and the odds that you are one of the tiny percent who catch the flu from the vaccine are greatly outweighed by the probability that the vaccine will prevent you from catching it from another source.

Answer 3

It is possible to symptoms OF the flu from a nasal mist, but not a shot. (Symptoms, not the actual thing) The shot is a few archaebacteria that have been mostly shutdown by disinfectants and medicinal combinations, whereas the nasal mist is still an active variation of the virus that is simply non-infectious. If you have any flu symptoms before or after your shot, it means the infectious version of the flu has entered your body, and the shot has likely worsened your condition.

Answer 4

Absolutely not. The vaccine does not contain the virus in a form that can replicate in the body.

Answer 5

It is a possibility that you can get flu symptoms if you get the flu shot but it is NOT the flu, just side effects.

Answer 6

Vaccines work by letting your immune system practice on a similar, but weaker version of the illness. But if the actual sickness is too different from the vaccine, the vaccine won't work.

Answer 7

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