I used to be phobic about needles, but when the opportunity to get a flu shot from the new high pressure squirt gun came along I went for it (you just feel a sharp tap as the vacci... moreI used to be phobic about needles, but when the opportunity to get a flu shot from the new high pressure squirt gun came along I went for it (you just feel a sharp tap as the vaccine is shot through your skin into your arm under high pressure). Later that season I went down with influenza. That was in 1971. Never since have I accepted a flu shot, and never since have I got the flu.But my advice to everyone is definitely get the flu shot when it is available; even if you live in a country where you have to pay for it out of your own pocket, and even if you have to endure injection by the hypodermic syringe method. You can't be too careful, and each year people all over the world die from the flu.Did you get a flu shot this season, and if you did, have you so far got the flu? If so, was it one of the 80%+ strains for which your shot is now known to have been ineffective, or was your flu shot appropriate for stopping the strain you actually ended up getting? less
