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Chama

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> On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 8:43:54 PM UTC-5, MisterDiddyWahDiddy wrote:
>> On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 10:23:15 AM UTC-6, S Viemeister wrote:
>>> On 11/28/2015 9:43 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>> I did indeed! I didn't think it possible but this seems to have stemmed
>>>> from that It is not as severe as flu I've had in the past, but bad
>>>> enough and of course now it has gone into my chest and I now have
>>>> tracheitis I am *really* fed up. I did get the flue shot along with
>>>> a shingles shot. Could that have made the difference?
>>>>
>>> An unfortunate coincidence.
>>>
>>> Doctors' surgeries/offices are full of germs from sick people.
>>> And the flu shots only protect against three different strains,
>>> considered most likely to be common in any given year. There are other
>>> strains out there, and some people are unlucky enough to encounter them.
>>
>> Ophelia, keep getting those immunizations. You might have been unlucky, and
>> were exposed to a strain not included in the flu shot, or what you have might
>> be another nasty virus that is not actually influenza. Immunizations are
>> pretty much unambiguously good.
>>
>> --Bryan
>
> Be sure to get your tetanus shot. Those dumpsters can be pretty nasty.
>
LOL!