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I have never had a flu shot get the flu once a year. are these super flus bring created by your vaccine eventually gonna get me and prob devour me ?
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Odd question: There are no "super flu bugs" created by vaccines. Vaccines are derived from strains created in nature.Nature sometimes mutates a flu strain to such a degree that a major part of the world population has never had a similar flu and it may reek havoc, as it did near the end of WWI. Since you get the flu every year, you likely have some partial immunity to new strains and don't get it as bad as some
Answered 2/1/2017
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