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henrys | 20:03 Wed 31st Oct 2007 | Health & Fitness
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does anyone know
what they put in a flu jab needle
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flu vaccine
20:05 Wed 31st Oct 2007
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what is vaccine
20:09 Wed 31st Oct 2007
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A vaccine is a very weak strain of the disease they are giving you the injection to prevent. By giving you the weakened version your body has a chance to build up a natural defence so that if you are exposed to the full blown disease you will be immune to it.
20:13 Wed 31st Oct 2007
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Strictly speaking it is not a weakened strain or a diluted strain.

It is a killed virus - an inactivated virus that causes your body to make antibodies against the virus without any possibility of it causing flu.

http://www.medicinenet.com/flu_vaccination/pag e2.htm#tocd
20:21 Wed 31st Oct 2007
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Sorry Ethel,I couldn't think of the right way to word it so that henrys would understand.
20:36 Wed 31st Oct 2007

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