This is a confusing subject for many people. H1N1/09 "Swine Flu" is a disease caused by an influenza virus infection and mostly affects the respiratory system. A vaccine is medication used to prevent a disease, in this case to prevent the swine flu. When you use the vaccine, your body will develop immunity to the disease. Immunization is what happens when your body learns how to fight a disease and remembers how to do that for the rest of your life (lifetime for the flu, and not all, but many, other kinds of Infectious Diseases), as long as you are otherwise healthy. Being protected from a disease by having the disease (which teaches your body how to rid you of it), or by getting a vaccination to "train" your body how to protect you from it, is called having "immunity." When you are vaccinated, it is also called getting immunization or immunized against a disease. Vaccines cause immunity by providing immunization.
See the related question below about how vaccinations work.
No, the H1N1 vaccine won't make you sicker or healthier if you already have H1N1.
the h1n1 vaccine does not work all the time
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Chickenpox vaccine on a US immunization card may be listed as VZV, VAR, VARIVAX, or PROQUAD.
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You can take the vaccine but it will not stop the disease. Vaccinations prevent disease but they do not cure them.
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call your doctor and make an appointment, and tell them you need a an H1N1 vaccine
No, the H1N1 virus does not contain carcinogens.
No, the "pneumonia vaccine" is to protect against several types of pneumonia that are common and will not protect against the A-H1N1/09 virus. See related questions below.