Influenza Immunity?

The rules with viruses are very simple -we play the odds and hope we are right as health care professionals. Usually if you survive an insult by a particular strain of flu virus your body has produced antibodies to ward off a repeated attack-but if that strain mutates and becomes more virulent then the second exposure may be milder or total new in severity as the worlds population increase and people expose themselves to closer proximity to animals we stand a better chance of getting viral mutations from the animal kingdom that have the potential to make AIDS and Ebola Virus look very meek!! If you don't believe me look back to swine flu at the turn of the century and the concern that avian virus are getting now - what is not being talked in disease potential from our genetic closest relatives the primates- If the were to be a gene flip from one of those guys you better run for cover because it will be nasty!! The public never reads about Monkey B virus because it makes death from rabies look desirable and there is no know cure anyway so why lose sleep!

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Hi 1 nut. I will also add my thanks to that. But I will never get rid of my cat, he has been with me for the past 14 years, and he has such a carachter that I would not have the heart to take his life no matter what. Spencer.

I would only add that the immunity, even to a particular strain,
is not life-long, but declines over time.

That's why you get 'boosters` on certain vaccinations.