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The difference between these numbers (13% and 17%) is smaller than the differences found after the winters of 2003/2004 (14% and 21%) and 2004/2005 (13% and 23%). However the survey contains some good news. Fewer people (15%) caught the flu this last winter than in the two previous winters we studied (18% and 21%).

                                   TABLE 1

        THOSE WHO HAD FLU SHOTS AND THOSE WHO GOT THE FLU THIS WINTER

                "Thinking back to this winter just ending ...

                       Did you get the flu this winter?

             Did you have a flu vaccine shot before this winter?"


    Base: All Adults


                                         March       March       April

                                          2004        2005        2007

                                            %           %           %

    Percentage of all adults who had

     a flu shot before this winter         35          27          35

    Percentage of all adults who got

     the flu this winter                   18          21          15



                                   TABLE 2

       HOW MANY OF THOSE WHO GOT OR DID NOT HAVE FLU SHOTS GOT THE FLU?

                "Thinking back to this winter just ending ...

                       Did you get the flu this winter?

             Did you have a flu vaccine shot before this winter?"


    Base: All Adults


                                         March       March       April

                                          2004        2005        2007

                                            %           %           %

    Percentage of all adults who

     had a flu shot who 
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