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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: "The effectiveness of inactivated influenza vaccine depends primarily on the age and immunocompetence of the vaccine recipient, and the degree of similarity between the viruses in the vaccine and those in circulation."
It is possible to get the Swine Flu even after taking a swine flu vaccination due to the above factors, and due to several other possible reasons:
- You had it already before you got the vaccine and just had not shown symptoms yet; or,
- between the time you took the vaccination and your body developed the full immunity (this can take as long as two weeks, but with the 2009 Swine flu vaccine it is expected to be only 8 - 10 days for healthy adults), you caught the flu; or,
- you may have caught a strain of flu that was different than the strain that was included in the vaccine, and so the vaccination would not provide immunity to the other strain. This can happen when there are mutations that significantly change the flu strain; or,
- because vaccines are not 100% effective in all people. For example, the 2009 seasonal flu vaccine was found in clinical trials to be expected to reduce laboratory-confirmed influenza by approximately 70% to 90% in healthy adults <65 years of age.
- Immunocompromised persons may have a reduced immune response to the Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine used in the flu shots, so there may not be full immunity acquired in some people (such as those on chemotherapy, transplant anti-rejection drugs, other immune suppressing drugs, persons with Lupus erythematosus or other auto immune diseases, HIV/AIDS, etc.) Therefore, it is suggested that those people who may have a suppressed immune response should continue to observe all safety precautions for avoiding infection by the H1N1/09 virus even after receipt of the vaccination (such as hand washing and other preventive measures), since they may not have a proper response to become fully immune.
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Is the swine flu vaccine the same thing as the swine flu shot?
Yes, they are the same thing.
Can animals be cured of Swine Flu?
Most animals are able to fight it off like most people are. There is a vaccine for pigs for one type of swine flu but it is not the same as the pandemic swine flu vaccine.
Who is eligible for the swine flu vaccine?
Anyone
Is the Swine Flu from the government?
No..The vaccine is tho'..
Is the Swine flu vaccine more dangerous than swine flu itself?
no, it is not, remeber, the vaccine is a dead or weakened version, of H1N1I was just given the shot and have had no reaction to this point.
How many people survived the Swine Flu by using taking the shot?
"The shot" is a vaccine for the swine flu. If you get the vaccine, then, in theory, you don't get the swine flu. If you didn't get it, then you didn't "survive" it, because "surviving" it means that you got the disease but didn't die from it. So, zero is the answer. On the other hand, the swine flu is no more deadly than the common flu, so the vast majority of the people who got the swine flu survived it.
Is Swine Flu vaccine against Muslim beliefs?
Defiantly no. It doesn't mean that all Muslims are not allowed to eat Pig so they shouldn't get vaccinated in the Quran it doesn't say anything about not getting vaccine for the Swine flu.
What does the H1N1 vaccine cover?
Originally in 2009 the vaccine for the pandemic swine flu was a monovalent vaccine, which means it was made to only prevent that one type of flu. Then for the 2010-2011 flu season, a trivalent vaccine was made for the regular flu just like every year. Trivalent means it is made to cover/prevent three different kinds of influenza virus infections. For the most recent flu season in the Northern Hemisphere, the "regular" flu shot contained the vaccine for swine flu and two others. So, the monovalent H1N1 vaccine covered only one type of flu: the pandemic swine flu. But the trivalent seasonal flu vaccines cover three types of flu (one of which, for the 2010 - 2011 flu season, is Swine flu H1N1/09).
Did Taylor Swift get the swine flu vaccine?
No, I don't think so.
Is swine flu vaccine available all over the world?
Yes
Is the Swine Flu vaccine effective against the regular flu?
Each flu vaccine is targeted to specific varieties of the flu virus. Unless another type of flu is very similar to the targeted virus, it will not be prevented with that vaccine. Having said that, since the 2010-2011 flu season through to the current 2011-2012 season, the "regular" seasonal flu vaccine, which always contains three types of flu vaccine (trivalent), has included the swine flu along with the other two varieties to which the vaccine was targeted. So in that sense, at least currently, the swine flu vaccination is effective against the regular flu since vaccines for each type are put together in one vaccination.
Where can the swine flu vaccination shot be taken other than the doctors office?
go to www.flu.gov, you will see Flu Vaccine Locator, put in your zip code and it will show you locations nearby where you can get it
