A journal article published in the June 2013 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases showed that people who got a flu shot were 5.5 times more at risk for developing another viral respiratory infection! And, they also found that there was no protection from the immunization from the flu. Hmmm. Want a flu shot?
A possible reason for this could be that we don't catch the flu or other respiratory viral infections from injections; we get it from exposure to the mucous membranes of our nose, throat and lungs. The immune response from immunizations is a production of antibodies, but the response from the natural infection is from another arm of the immune system called cellular immunity. These cells engulf viruses and kill them very effectively. Antibodies don't get the job done as well and sometimes don't get the job done at all. Vaccines interfere with the development of cellular immunity...not a good scenario.
