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Old 11-30-2009, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Erin524 View Post
She's 69yrs old and has COPD and other chronic conditions, but they still wont let her have the vaccine. I just hope that flu we had in 1976 was a swine flu and that it's going to protect my mom some.
Don't quote me on this, but to set your mind at ease, I seem to recall reading those age 65 (or around that number) having immunity. As you say, from a previous variant of the flu another year. Hope this is the case, but it's what I recall reading.
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