Flu is just like having a heavy cold A bad bout of flu is much worse than a heavy cold. Flu symptoms come on suddenly and sometimes severely.
They include fever, chills, headaches and aching muscles, as well as a cough and sore throat. You're likely to spend two or three days in bed.
If you get complications caused by flu, you could become seriously ill and have to go to hospital. The flu vaccine gives you fluNo, it doesn't.
The injected flu vaccine given to adults contains inactivated flu viruses, so it can't give you flu.Your arm may feel a bit sore where you were injected, and some people get a slight temperature and aching muscles for a couple of days afterwards.
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