I had the jab a week and a half ago (at work), with the ony side effect being a tender injection site. As a health worker I am in the group highly recommended to have the vaccine.
Yes perhaps the hype for avian flu was much greater than its reported infections here, but the H1N1 virus has seen people infected over a very wide demographic and gepgraphic distribution in Australia. Yes it is a greater risk for those with underlying health problems but it has also been lethal to otherwise previously healthy individuals.
If people choose not to have the vaccine, however, it is a personal choice..... as long as the choice is made sensibly after consideration of accurate clinical information (not media hype or rumour) and of personal theological, ideological and religious reasons (as Dave Pastern states). It may, however, also come down to population health rather than the health of the individual, in the case where an epidemic of a lethal disease occurs.
Kerrie
