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Old 11th January 2018, 11:37
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Originally Posted by Farmer John View Post
It is a difficult question, the flu jab given to such as myself is a totally inactive serum so it should have no effect itself. The jab given to little kids is a partially inactivated vaccine to provoke a stronger reaction in an immune system that has perhaps never been challenged before. I think that a level of immunity to some strains must help the whole population, low levels of protection can allow the disease to spread across the population more easily.
Well put Farmer John. I do believe that some of the population have stronger immune systems and are well able to withstand certain types of communicable illnesses that do spring up in communities from time to time. Children have not had a chance for their own immune systems to be strengthened and they, like some of the elderly, are not physically equipped to withstand a bad cases of the 'Flu.
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