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Originally Posted by Barnard17
You get flu-like symptons for a day or two at very worst, usually it's just a sore arm. The way vaccines work is they contain dead or minimal amounts of the virus it combats. The bodies defence system then tries throwing anti-bodies at it until it gets the right one and kills off/does away with the virus cells. Then it stores a memory, as it were, of what that virus is and how to combat it next time it comes into contact with live cells in high amounts (eg you sit on a bus with the person behind you sneezing down your neck). Feeling tired is from energy expenditure of the body devoting effort to producing anti-bodies, and a temperature is also something the body uses to combat a virus. So you might get a bit of this, but it's not incredibly severe and not for very long.
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yeah i learned that whole antibody part in school, im smarter than you think! im a biology geek at heart
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anyways i thought this vaccine made you unwell or something the way ive been reading! the vaccine is basically your bodys primary response so second time round the body knows what to do quicker for when you actually get swine flu. you would have it for less time second time round also.
