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10 Vaccine Myths You Should Completely Ignore

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#5 Myth: You’re more likely to get sick from a vaccine than from the environment

As you probably know, vaccines come from killed or weakened germs, or just specific proteins from them, which won’t cause serious illness.

So, in order to help the body get familiar with the disease and fight it in the future, the immune system will have to confront with a small dose of a real infection. Dr. Yamada also adds that the most you’ll get after getting a vaccine is a minor symptom like a mild fever that’s way less dangerous than anything you’d pick up from your environment.

Even if you do feel sick after getting a vaccine, your sniffles are probably totally unrelated to your shot, Dr. Fisher says. “Often when people get the flu shot, it happens to be in the season when respiratory viruses are starting to circulate in the community,” she says.

“So if they get a flu shot and then one of the other common respiratory viruses, they presume it’s from the shot when they probably got a different virus.”

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