Kann man sich bei kalten Temperaturen eine Grippe einfangen? Ist die Grippe dasselbe wie eine Erkältung? EuroVerify wirft einen Blick auf Grippe-Mythen.
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00:00Common flu myths debunked.
00:07Flu season is officially here.
00:09And along with it a plethora of common misconceptions about the virus.
00:13From the efficacy of vaccines to the medication you can take,
00:16a number of myths persist, both through word of mouth and online.
00:20Euroverify presented some of the most common to experts to see what they had to say.
00:26The answer to that one is a pretty easy no.
00:28That's exactly the opposite of what the flu vaccine is designed to do.
00:33It's designed to induce immunity in your body that will help protect you
00:39should you be exposed to the flu.
00:41So getting the flu shot won't increase your chances of getting flu.
00:45And all hopes are that it will actually do the opposite.
00:56We tend to all put it together when it's a lot of different respiratory viruses,
01:01airborne viruses that are circulating during the winter period.
01:05Take flu for instance.
01:08People can get very mild illness from the flu and it can also become very severe.
01:18There has been some scientific evidence indicating that
01:21your first immune response, so your immune body that needs to fight off the virus
01:27at the level of your throat and where your mucosa are,
01:31that that can be negatively impacted by the cold.
01:35But I wouldn't put it in a black and white sense in terms of
01:39the cold temperature is going to cause this,
01:41because we know that a lot of other things occur during the winter period,
01:45such as people being outside less often, people are gathering indoors.
01:49To hear the truth behind other flu myths, check out our website euronews.com