I'm a great believer in flu shots, so when I reminded one of my daughters that she'd better get one this year, I was shocked to learn that I'd raised a non-believer. And I never get sick. Besides, need I remind you that you also had one last year and spent a week in bed just before Christmas. That's the thing about these darn shots. Though experts say you can't get sick from them, you can still get sick.
Germs are everywhere.
My office-mate arrived this morning with a sore throat. But as Dr. Colin D'Cunha reminds me, the flu is different from a cold and sore throat. In most of our minds, I think the difference has blurred. D'Cunha, Ontario's chief medical officer of health, says that some people also believe you can get the flu from the flu shot. He explains that the flu vaccine is not a live virus, so no way can it give you the flu.