Influenza vaccines are developed each year to protect people from
the three strains expected to be most prevalent. All the viruses in
the vaccine are killed, so it is not possible to get the flu from
the vaccine.
Review Date: 10/03/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical
Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
