re: Public service announcement: Get your GD flu shot

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Well..... what's in it?

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Either three (trivalent) or four (quadrivalent) strains of inactivated flu virus (Most commonly H1N1 and H3N2 strains of flu A and one or two strains of flu B)

Egg proteins

Aluminum salts

Gelatin

Gentamicin or neomycin

Formaldehyde

If from a multi dose vial it will contain thimerosal, though most flu shots are given in pre dosed syringes or from single dose vials now and don’t have this

The aluminum salts and formaldehyde are presents in very small doses (you take in more aluminum from your food every day than you get in a lifetime of flu vaccines) orders of magnitude below any toxic dosing level.