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Flu vaccine problems

RSAMSON18 at cs.com RSAMSON18 at cs.com
Mon May 1 23:38:29 EST 2000


What I was suggesting in my original posting is if one is vaccinated for one 
of the
Type A strain of virus and what comes along is a very slightly different 
strain of the
Type A virus, the immune system may think "I've seen this before" and not try 
to
produce new antibodies until too late.  This may only happen rarely and only 
with the
devilish flu virus.  I still consider it a possibility mainly based on the 
results, which
was that the outbreak was much more severe on a very high percentage of those
were vaccinated.
Ralph L. Samson
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