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I WANT TO BE FIRST IN LINE FOR THE SHOT!!!
I work in a children's hospital, and the kids are just walking talking petri dishes. We have a ton of kids with swine flu in Ala, and guess where they go to get treated? Let me tell you, Purell is like liquid gold around this place!
Two of our Division's docs got their faces sprayed yesterday when kids coughed on them this week, so they are already on Tamiflu. And that is just for my specific group. Luckily, we don't work in Infectious Diseases or General Peds!!
Yes yes yes, I'll be in the first group to get the vaccine, due to being in healthcare and due to having a few medical problems of my own. I take the flu shot every year, haven't had flu in decades now.
What a vaccine does is it is almost the virus, usually just dead virus, and fools your body into thinking you have been infected by a living breathing version of the virus. That way, you can create nice B & T and all the nice killer alphabet cells. Then they go dormant in your spleen and, unless you laugh your spleen out, they stay there harmlessly until you encounter the real virus. Those killer immune cells flood your bloodstream and hopefully block whatever receptor on the virus that is trying to gain a foothold on you. Sort of like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, it just won't work.
To any MD's lurking out there: Please feel free to correct me if I said it wrong.
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