How the flu vaccine works

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How the flu vaccine works

“It’s not the vaccine that prevents us from getting sick,” reveals Dr Markus Frühwein. “It’s our own immune system.”

Vaccination trains our immune systems: first to fight the flu and then to remember how to fight it. If the real influenza virus comes along, our bodies are then well equipped to combat it.

Join Dr Frühwein as he explains how a flu shot teaches your body to fight the flu – naturally.

How the flu vaccine works

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