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Something to consider:
Each year, the flu comes around and everyone rushes around in an attempt to get a vaccine. I did the flu shot for two years and you end up feeling like crap for a couple days. Out of all my other years without the shot, I've only had the flu twice and I've elected to just let the fever climb and burn it off. You're miserable for a couple days, but I find it better to be extremely miserable for a couple days rather than drag it out to a full week by popping aspirin and such. I opt to bypass the shot because of the effects and I would just rather deal with the low odds of actually catching the illness.
Anyways, if they did develop a vaccine, would you take it? Flu shots have a certain rate of complication, some of them severe, and sometimes taking the shot is worse than actually catching the illness. Obviously, H5N1 is so nasty that it would be better to take the shot, but what if everyone takes it, a certain percentage of people die from it, and H5N1 never ends up posing a threat to humans? Should we delay the shot until we see the flu being passed from person-to-person, or is it possible that we'll not have enough warning to give it out, in time?
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