Ralph,
I think you have your stats turned around. Please provide the citation that
shows that the outbreak of influenza for this past year was worse among
those vaccinated for that year. If your immune system took time to think
about if it has seen an antigen before it begins responding, you would never
respond to anything. If it is going to make an immune response, it does so
immediately. When influenza mutates, it often finds a way to shield the
antigenic epitopes on the surface glycoproteins, thus preventing a
neutralizing immune response, not merely delaying it.
Please check your resource again and share it with us for educational
purposes.
Thank you.
Rick
<RSAMSON18 at cs.com> wrote in message news:13.4aafaff.263fb59c at cs.com...
> 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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