How the flu vaccine works

[MinecraftPlayer9001]

Yes...of course, the viruses aren't "dead" or "alive" like Thaylog456 mentioned. By what is said in the video, i'm guessing when they say "dead" but still causing mild flu symptoms, do they mean that they strip the virus of its RNA (or whatever allows it to force the cell to reproduce more of the virus) so that the virus simply will not be able to multiply and that your body can produce antibodies without it "losing" to the virus?

[yeaahhmaan]

Antibodies

[Thaylog456]

The only bit that contradicts in this video, is that Viruses aren't really Alive in the first place.

I suppose they used the terms alive and dead so the audience could better understand.

[heine71]

What are the "Y"''s for?

[AnThOnYrox8]

can a virus ever cease to exist? where does it come from in the first place.

[bddblade]

@AnThOnYrox8 hm good question :o I think viruses and stuff like that probably come from dirty animals and stuff like that. but who knows. Germs are everywhere!

[nadimghaoui]

lol lets jsut hope that the vaxine is from dead virus :P

[ultimateinfinity21]

Lol, lets hope so!

[pakmule88]

yes...true. Though you can get live nassal flu shots that are alive but weakened.

[okpapereat]

it is dead viruses i already got the H1N1 shot and it was sore for 1 week

[wlwak]

he WHO was vaccinating against Polio in some African muslim countries. There was a rumour spread that the vaccine was a plot to make women infertile and so they boycotted it. Now after years of progress in stopping the spread of Polio in Africa, the disease has returned. Now that is because of superstitious morons like you who don't trust medical staff and the World Health Organisation.

I suggest you don't take the vaccine. Just leave it to us who know a little about health issues you idiot.

[KoesKoes99]

I dunno mate, When you think you have the swine flu, and you dont wanna die....The vaccine is a (Possible) way out

[oraclecrank]

I got mine this morning. They work; they're safe; they prevent the flu. If you think otherwise, you're a moron.

[yourboyken]

I am not fooled and i will not be partaking in the Vaccination party this winter!

[xavilacoste69]

is there a vaccine?

[Mgebrisuilcansceam]

yes, but it's uneffective :s

[cubanomx2]

Is not uneffective... the fact is every year the flu vaccine changes....

[Mgebrisuilcansceam]

You're right, it's a virus with a very short life, therefore it mutates all the time because it must evolve in order to survive so the vacciones we have right now are against the old version of the virus and it turns it uneffective against the new one.

[cubanomx2]

Exactly, I don't have the words in english to explain well the process but every year a vaccine is created for the "actual" virus... there is a lot of "versions"... the scientist create a vaccine with the estimated virus, to fight this virus, but every year the virus "mutate"=? to a new "version".... so they need to create an specific vaccine for each influenza type

[Mgebrisuilcansceam]

It's okay, sorry, the same thing happened to me, the process is difficult to exlain in English, for the youtube nickname i can tell you speak spanish, I understand, so do I.

[bobaneko]

so it like saying we dont have the vaccine of the old one we just have update of the old ones right