Flu season: Why you might get sick even if you've been vaccinated
ABCThe man in this photo looks appalling: a middle-aged male suffering, all tucked up in his chair-bed ready to moan the day away. "It's based on what strains have been circulating over the past few years in the Northern or Southern hemisphere, each one is guided by what's been happening in the other," Professor Stocks said. Influenza rates in SA 2012: 6,297 total cases 6,297 total cases 2013: 4,820 total cases 4,820 total cases 2014: 11,050 total cases 11,050 total cases 2015: 15,659 total cases 15,659 total cases 2016: 7,850 total cases 7,850 total cases 2017: 1,696 so far Professor Stocks is part of a group called ASPREN, which sounds like something out of an Austin Powers movie, but is in fact the Australian Sentinel Practices Research Network. "There was a new kid on the block that no-one had been exposed to before, they are called naive populations, and so people get sick very quickly," Professor Stocks said. Get the flu shot, even though there's no guarantee It won't give you a 100 per cent guarantee, but Professor Stocks' advice is, do it anyway.
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