Do you really need that flu shot?

I just learned that the flu vaccinations are grown in chicken eggs. I guess I had never given it much thought as to how the vaccines are produced. Just happened to run across an article in a magazine recently on it. It takes one to two eggs to produce enough of the vaccine to immunize one person. It takes about 100 million chicken eggs a year to produce the vaccine. Now how can you tell me the big pharma and factory farms don’t have a thing going here? The vaccines must be grown months in advance of the upcoming flu season, so the medical folks must guess which strains of the flu will be the most popular. Now remember, the flu vaccine will only protect you from the particular flu strains that it is developed for. This won’t do you any good against the common cold, other viruses like strep throat, or even flu strains that were not produced in the vaccine. Using some common sense will probably do more good at protecting yourself against the flu than getting a flu shot.