Grippe-Saison: Verbreitete Mythen entlarvt

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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

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