"gloria.p" > wrote in message
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> My husband's late aunt was PhD in science (entomology) and decided in her
> declining years that she could not go out in public because she was afraid
> of getting the flu. She said she couldn't get a flu shot because
> she was allergic to albumen (egg, on which the virus is cultured.) Yet
> she ate eggs for breakfast every day for the last 30 years of her life, at
> least as evidenced by her food diary and the stacks of egg cartons in her
> garage.
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> You can't convince people who don't want to be convinced.
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> gloria p

It is entirely possible to be allergic to flu shots and not to eating eggs.
I am. I can eat eggs and chicken with no problems at all. If I get a flu
shot I suffer for three days. I am allergic to feathers.


Ms P