Tatyana
Elite Mentor
Great post. You are exactly right, the strains are more powerful and all it would take is the right one. The WHO just announced that if the Swine Flu became an epidemic , it would take 8 to 10 months to get the vaccines on the market. by then you are dead
September for a specific vaccine.
If you have had previous influenza jabs, then you will have some protection as there are only so many of the H spikes and so many of the N spikes.
One of your memory cells will elicit a much faster response to one of the spikes of the virus.
One of the issues with the deadly strains of influenza is that it killed quite quickly, and the natural progression of the acute to acquired immune response takes two weeks.
If you have had previous exposure (the vaccine), your immune system gets to the acquired immune response faster, and the white cells in your body can start to recognise and kill the virus faster.