How Seniors Can Prevent the Flu
Why Seniors Should Get Vaccinated Each Year
Why Seniors Should Get Vaccinated Each Year
If you are older, a severe case of flu could take your independence away. An annual flu vaccine is the best way to reduce an elderly person’s risk of severe flu and its potentially serious consequences. Flu vaccines:
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Reasons To Vaccinate Your Child Against the Flu
Reasons To Vaccinate Your Child Against the Flu
Vaccination also reduces the risk of flu-related deaths by:
Learn more about protecting children from the flu in the slideshow:
How You Can Prevent Your Child From Catching the Flu
How You Can Prevent Your Child From Catching the Flu
Keep your child away from infected people10
Wash your child’s hands often10
Teach your child to refrain from touching their eyes, nose and mouth10
Vaccinate your child against the flu every year11
Learn more about flu prevention for children:
The Importance of Flu Prevention During Pregnancy
The Importance of Flu Prevention During Pregnancy
Learn more about protecting yourself and your unborn child against the flu during pregnancy in the slideshow:
The Flu Is More Serious Than You Think
The Flu Is More Serious Than You Think
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, annual flu epidemics are estimated to result in about:
Catching the flu could also lead to life-threatening complications like:
While the flu is deadliest among children, older adults, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems, no one is protected from the virus without vaccination.
Learn more about flu vaccination in the slideshow below:
Can wearing a mask protect you?
Can wearing a mask protect you?
A study showed that masks led to a more than threefold reduction in how much flu virus people sprayed into the air.
But sometimes you can even get the flu by touching a surface that has the virus on it, like elevator buttons or doorknobs, and then touching your mouth or nose. And to make matters worse, the flu virus can live for up to three days on those hard surfaces!
The best defense against flu starts with you! One of the most effective ways to protect yourself against flu and its serious complications is through annual flu vaccination but remember to practice good hygiene habits like handwashing too.
