all-in-one flu shot available at Minute Clinic - is it too early?

[Anonymous]

I just got an email from the Minute Clinic where we got our flu shots last year. They have the all-in-one flu shot. Are there any pros/cons to getting the flu shot in Sept vs. later in the Fall? I just find it surprising that it's available already.

[Anonymous]

No, no difference, it will still protect you.

[Anonymous]

Might want to check it out first. There have been reports in Australia of convulsions, seizures, and childhood deaths following this particular flu shot.

[Anonymous]

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2885203.htm

PP here. Supporting article. If you google "flu vaccine australia" you'll get a tone of hits for what happened this past spring for us (autumn for this part of the world)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, no difference, it will still protect you.

Not necessarily -- the concern is that flu vaccines wear off, so if one gets them too early in the season they might not still be protected at the END of the season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Might want to check it out first. There have been reports in Australia of convulsions, seizures, and childhood deaths following this particular flu shot.

OMG Give it a rest. This isn't even the shot we are getting this year.

[Anonymous]

Will all flu vaccines be all-in-one this year? Are people still coming down with H1N1?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will all flu vaccines be all-in-one this year? Are people still coming down with H1N1?

The H1N1 vaccine is included as one of the three vaccines they include in the flu shot.

[Anonymous]

6:42 again. I'm also not sure I understand the reference to the Australian article. That seems to have been from April of this year, plus the flu shot could be different from the one we get. European H1N1 flu shots, for example, contained adjuvants that are currently illegal in American shots.