For more information about the flu vaccine visit www.fluawareni.info or speak to your GP or member of staff within the school nurse team at your local Health and Social Care Trust. The vaccine has proved effective in just one in three adults last victor. “The Department of Health is committed to working with medical providers in an effort to provide influenza vaccine in the community, especially to those at increased risk for severe complications from influenza”. If you get sick right after you get the flu vaccine, it wasn’t the shot that infected you.
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The FDA used a similar pathway when it considered, then in 2009 approved, Sanofi’s high-dose flu vaccine for seniors.
Although flu season is still a few weeks away, Dr. Rhynes said flu shots are now available. Now you are going to get it from me, too. The so-called stomach flu is caused, most likely, by a norovirus, not influenza.
A flu vaccine generally works in 50% of the cases.
Although adults 65 and above are at the highest risk from pneumonia, that vaccine is recommended also for younger adults 18 and over who have chronic health conditions (heart disease, chronic kidney disease, asthma, other chronic lung diseases), had their spleen removed or have sickle cell disease.
In addition, lead study co-author Dr. Michael Rothberg, also from the Cleveland Clinic, shares that when the vaccine is administered between the ages of 60 and 70, it has a protective effect which can lasts between 10 and 12 years.
“Getting vaccinated is an action that we can all take that will actively protect ourselves and others from the flu”, Epling said. At the Mercy Care Alliance, a network of hospitals and doctors in Springfield, Mass. officials this summer identified more than 1,000 seniors with no record of a pneumonia vaccine in past five years and advised their physicians to call them.
“Once you get past one or two vaccines, it gets confusing”, he said.
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According to these researchers, vaccines can create “herd immunity”, which means that unvaccinated people are protected from illness because they are surrounded by healthy, vaccinated people.
