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For years, the CDC has been promoting the notion that flu shots are between 70 and 90 percent effective in preventing influenza 16 and everybody needs to get vaccinated because type A and type B influenza causes more than 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths in the U.S. every year.
The flu vaccine can't give you the flu, experts say. The flu shot uses virus heated to 165 degrees to keep it from reproducing. Mild symptoms lasting just a day are the result of the body's immune system revving up.