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Article: my f rst flu shot.(Daily Break)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2007
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Byline: NANCY YOUNG [bar] THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Don't be a baby. Get your flu shot. That's what I said last year in a news story about the start of the 2006-07 influenza season.
What this trusty medical reporter didn't admit was that she was Public Baby No. 1. Didn't get the shot. Meant to. Didn't.
That's pretty much how it has worked for me every year.
Since I had never gotten the flu, I reasoned that I didn't want to give my body any ideas by injecting it with a dead flu virus.
Oh, I knew the "give my body any ideas" theory probably wouldn't be hailed in the halls of science. I knew from a host of experts that the body doesn't get the flu from the ...