The Risk of The Influenza Vaccine The flu shot produces the best way to reduce everyone's chances of getting the influenza virus, but previous research has shown that it does in fact cause all sorts of different side effects. The flu shot does not always prevent the virus. Sometimes it can even cause harmful side effects. Each year the flu shot affects ten to twenty percent of the US population, and over one hundred thousand …showed first 75 words of 635 total…

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