flu jab wont give you the flu may help
Sorry but the medical evidence is over-whelming flu jabs will not give you the flu and will protect you from the strains it covers.
Some more points-
1. Do not forget that all flu epidemics start in Asia but thanks to air travel now spread round the globe much more rapidly than before ( remember SARS). So influenza virus is already present in many countries that you may fly to.
2. I do not know whether the pilots have their own air supply but everyone else is clearly at risk from recycled air with one passenger coughing flu virus out at incredible speed.
3. It is only a matter of time before we get a real flu pandemic or world-wide serious illness. There is again evidence that those whose immune system has been primed by flu jabs may, and I stress may be better able to cope!!
If it is offered free take it doctors do!!