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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Pandemic Flu |
Flu shot02/05/2008 02:18PM |
I am one of those people that are in the high risk of getting problems form the flu. I get a flu shot every year. Would the flu shot protect me from the pandemic or would they creat a new one just for the type of flu during the pandemic?
It is unlikely that an annual flu shot would protect you from pandemic flu. Researchers are working on creating a flu shot specifically for the pandemic flu. One of the problems with creating a pandemic flu shot is that the pandemic flu virus may have to mutate (change) in order to be able to infect a lot of people and cause a pandemic. Researchers are not sure exactly what the surface antigens of a flu virus that can cause a pandemic will look like. They hope that the flu shot they create will at least make the pandemic flu illness less severe.
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John Andrews, MD, MPH Assistant Senior Vice President Director University Health Services Academic Health Center University of Cincinnati |
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