Effectiveness of flu vaccines revealed – just 34% effective in young adults

The health department offers flu vaccines – right now, they are waiting for state vaccine for children. Please discuss this with your doctor.

Giant is giving free coupon books to customers who get flu shot.

As long as you receive your vaccines from an in-network provider, you should not be asked for a copay, the CDC emphasized.

What can I do to protect myself, and my family, from the flu? It’s one of the most important ways you can protect yourself and those around you.

Nearly everyone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends everyone over the age of 6 months get the flu shot, except for those with severe, life-threatening allergies to the flu vaccine or its ingredients.

Preventive measures include frequent hand-washing, and sneezing and coughing into sleeves. “If they are allergic to the vaccine they wear masks when working”. Locally, doctors noticed two spikes in illnesses last winter, the first in December and January and then again in March.

It’s still officially summer but if you’re feeling sick, you might be coming down with the flu. This season’s vaccines have been updated to better match circulating viruses. Children under 18 need permission from a parent for a flu shot.

There are many reasons to choose to get your flu shot at the clinic: Wait time is minimal, usually less than 15 minutes; you will be getting your shot from a crew of registered nurses.

Previously, retail-based pharmacists could give flu shots only to adults.

Every year the World Health Organization picks the three strains of flu that would be circulated, with different vaccines recommended for the Northern and Southern hemispheres. ACIP reviewed evidence showing that the nasal form of the vaccine which delivers a weakened (attenuated) live virus is more effective for this age group when compared with the flu shot which is an inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) that contains killed virus.

Antibiotics treat bacterial infections and since viruses cause influenza, these medications will not help treat the flu.

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Stop by the Outpatient Pharmacy at Virginia Hospital Center. In the cases where the elderly were also immunized against the flu, findings showed that the decline in risk was twice as large than in senior citizens who have not received the vaccine at all.

Medicare Part B covers both shots, if they are taken at least 11 months apart. Here are five bogus excuses often used to avoid the flu shot.

A western Montgomery County influenza immunization clinic will be held Oct. 22 (2015) from 3:30-6:30 p.m.in Hope Community Church, 2732 N. Charlotte St., the county Health Department announced.