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Only sort of, and only maybe in very specific circumstances. Usually, being "contagious" means you have the disease or infection and can give it to someone else. That won't happen when someone gets a vaccination, because they can't get the flu from the vaccination.

In the US, the vaccine that is injected in a flu shot for H1N1/09 influenza is made from "dead"/inactivated virus particles that can not give anyone the flu. So, you would not get the flu to be able to be contagious after getting that type of vaccination.

The nasal spray vaccine is made from active/"live" viruses, but they are processed to be too weak to cause anyone healthy to get the flu from the vaccine. This is called an attenuated live virus vaccine. If you are healthy and old enough to take the vaccine (over 2), you would also not get the flu from this vaccine, so you would not be contagious.

The exception is when this type of "live" vaccine is given, and someone with a severe immune disorder, that makes them very susceptible to infections, is in very close contact immediately following the vaccination with the person who received the nasal spray. In that specific circumstance, there is a very rare chance that there could be virus that is loose on the person, or able to be sneezed from the nose of the person, so that the virus is passed to the susceptible person. It is not so much that they were contagious, because they didn't have the flu, it is that the virus was loose in the environment or on their body and could then be available for the other person to pick up and infect themselves.

For this reason, people who get the nasal spray vaccine, made with attenuated (weakened) live virus, are warned to wait seven days as a precaution before being in close contact with someone with a severe immune disorder (like those who must be in protective "bubbles", or are on anti-rejection transplant medications, for example).

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You could get a strain of the H1N1 flu virus that was not the same kind of virus that was in the flu shot. There are several different strains of H1N1 influenza. The pandemic Swine Flu A-H1N1/09 has not mutated enough yet to keep you from still being immune to that strain, but if you are exposed another strain, you may or may not be protected ~ depending on how close the one in the shot was to the one going around now.

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You can be a carrier of the H1N1 and not no it but give it to someone else.

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No. Viruses are gone from your body when your immune system has successfully fought them off. A vaccine is not a treatment for the flu, it is used to prevent the flu.

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no because a vaccine is weakened germs of that virus. your immune system fights the weakened germs then it can fight the stronger ones

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