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Do you actually need the flu shot?

By Editorial Board Published February 21, 2025 4 Min Read
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Do you actually need the flu shot?

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Since October, not less than 29 million Individuals have come down with the flu, which has led to round 370,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths—together with 68 pediatric deaths. This consists of two kids in Michigan, which is seeing extraordinarily excessive flu exercise this season.

So, what are you able to do to guard your self? In fact, you are able to do issues resembling washing your fingers and maintaining a clear surroundings—however specialists advocate you get the flu vaccine, and here is why.

Vaccines stimulate your immune system to reply as if it had been responding to a viral an infection—with out truly making you sick. In response to the vaccine, your physique produces the mandatory antibodies, in order that in case you are uncovered to the true virus, your physique is already ready to combat it off.

This results in a extra speedy immune response—however that does not imply you will not get sick.

“You don’t take the flu vaccine so that you don’t get sick from the flu,” says Victor DiRita, chair of Michigan State College’s Division of Microbiology, Genetics and Immunology. “You take it so you don’t die from the flu.”

Nonetheless, why is it regular so that you can get vaccines for illnesses resembling Hepatitis B or measles only some instances, however specialists advocate you get the flu shot yearly?

As a result of, in contrast to most illnesses, the flu adjustments yearly.

“We don’t typically see the same high degree of variation with other viruses that we vaccinate against, with the exception of COVID-19,” says DiRita. “That’s why they’re constantly upgrading and changing the vaccines. But it just depends on how much variation occurs within the population of the virus.”

Every flu season, an advisory committee appears on the strains of flu circulating in different species. Then, they predict the strains that can leap to people, and pharmaceutical firms produce various kinds of vaccines for them. Annually, it is a guess—and typically they’re improper.

“You can start to see this as the flu season is older by looking at the morbidity rate of people who are getting sick,” says DiRita. “With the higher rate of infection this year, it seems maybe we didn’t do as well, although we do have, unfortunately, a growing and misguided skepticism about vaccines.” 

Regardless of this, DiRita recommends getting the vaccine yearly.

“I get it every year. I absolutely recommend it. Flu is a lethal disease, and people just need to understand that you don’t have to be in a particular demographic for flu to kill you,” says DiRita. “It’s an equal opportunity killer. The vaccine is the reason we’re able to live with it and not worry too much about flu season. If we didn’t have the vaccine, we’d have a totally different attitude”

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