I keep reading those of us over 50 don't need (not recommended) to get the N1H1 vaccination

Am I misreading this??? Or since I got my original shot in the 70's I should be AOK?? Tell me oh omnipotent DU.

If you were alive then you MIGHT have some immunity.

AFIK that is the only logical explanation for this.

The handout sheet said that immunity should last for up to a year.
I can't understand how the swine flu shot I got in the 70's could last 30+ years.
Does anyone have an explanation for this?

The swine flu (H1N1)outbreak occurred in 1976.

if the shot is available - get it

I got the shot and was sick before I got to the car. Does that give you any immunity?

My Mom also got the shot and got sick as a dog. It never did affect me.

The insanity of DU spreads. :eyes:

The truth is that some people *do* seem to be a lot less susceptible to swine flu. People over 50 years of age appear to fall into this category, and it is thought that the fact that an H1N1 swine flu strain was in circulation prior to 1957 (the year the Asian Flu pandemic dropped swine flu off the map) might have something to do with that. Older people may have antibodies to the older strain of swine flu, and this may be protecting them to some degree.
http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/are-you-immune-to-the-swine-flu-pandemic-1272565.html#

It might be even better for people over the age of 60:

New evidence suggests that people in their 60s might be somewhat protected against the spreading swine flu because they may have been exposed earlier to a similar strain, government health officials said.

Test results released Thursday of blood samples from 350 people showed that a third of adults older than 60 had developed antibodies that might confer some protection against the novel H1N1 virus, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, a public health official with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30795846/ns/health-swine_flu/