> The flu vaccine only protects against specific strains of the flu virus that are expected to be around in the upcoming flu season.
Directly, though you do get some level of partial immunity to other similar strains of flu. Whether there's enough overlap with the H5N1 for any partial recognition, I don't know. I'm sure not enough to be significant.
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> The flu vaccine only protects against specific strains of the flu virus that are expected to be around in the upcoming flu season.
Directly, though you do get some level of partial immunity to other similar strains of flu. Whether there's enough overlap with the H5N1 for any partial recognition, I don't know. I'm sure not enough to be significant.