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Flu Victim Explains His Story
Dec. 10, 2003

Variant or drifting strains of influenza are still popping up in people even though they've had flu shots. One man, hospitalized at LDS Hospital, had a flu shot in September but the bug still took him down. Ed Yeates is there live with more on the story.

Like many others who've been getting sick, the gentleman here at LDS Hospital is considered a high risk patient. David Morrison is missing a third of his left lung from lung cancer, something he fought off more than a year ago, even though he's never smoked in his life. So at high risk for respiratory infections, David got his flu shot in September. He was scheduled for a second booster shot this month. But it didn't come soon enough.

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[Judith Anne]

Thanks, torstars. Since I'm allergic to eggs, I won't be getting any vaccine, including the Flumist which is also based on an egg culture.

Anyway, the articles you've posted seem to say that there's no effective vaccine against the Fujiian strain, anyway, and if I read correctly, that's the one with the most significant morbidity and mortality.

Just a quick question, if you know--is there a quick test specifically for the Fujiian strain, so it can be differentiated from, say, emerging SARS or other flu strains?