Flu Season...

[MilDoc]

started early in Texas. We started seeing confirmed cases of Influenza A a few weeks ago. Promises to be a bad year.

Get your flu shots soon!

[Ed62]

Get your flu shots soon!

Got 'em a couple weeks ago, along with a pneumonia shot.

Ed

[gary]

Is the shot effective against that flu?

[TB Roye]

Got them a week ago, it is a annual thing for us.

Tom

[MilDoc]

Is the shot effective against that flu?

Yes. The strain isolated here is covered.

[cgallery]

We aren't going for ours until Monday. Hope it will be soon enough.

[JeffG78]

I'm not sure why, but I have never gotten a flu shot. I haven't had the flu in almost 15 years and rarely even catch a cold. I get one cold every few years at most even though LOML and coworkers are always sick. The one thing I do to avoid getting sick is to NOT go nuts with the antibacterial cleansers. I figure I'll let me body fight off the little buggers rather than getting a flu shot. Might backfire some day, but it seems like it has worked for me.

[MilDoc]

Depends a lot on your health and age. At my age, and in young kids, the death rate is relatively high. But if you're an "in betweener" and otherwise in good health and shape, the flu might land you in bed for a week but you'll probably survive.

[germdoc]

If you ever saw someone with a good case of the flu, you'd stand in line to get your shot. It makes you about as miserable as you can get.

Now's the time to get the shot, before everyone around you at work or the mall is coughing and sneezing.

[cwithboat]

Medicare paid $30 for my flu shot at the local supermarket. What are other parts of the country (or world) paying?

[Hellrazor]

They emailed us at work about the shots. $30 for flu and $50 for pneumonia. I don't bother getting the shots. I am always amused when everyone finds out the shots were for the wrong strain, etc anyway.

[John Hunter]

The wife and I got our shots a couple of weeks ago. We get them every year. We have been getting them every year since I retired (10 years) we have never caught the flu so they must be doing some good.

[billwmeyer]

Flu shots

I got my flu shot Wednesday. My company pays for them. I have got them for several years, except a couple of years ago when there was a shortage. I qualified as I am diabetic, but I couldn't stand the thought of taking it away from someone who might need it worse.
Bill