Did you get your flu shot?

The winter is coming and right now is the time to get the flu shot. The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a message for all Americans.

This year the rule for the vacination is different comparing to the last year. Almost 60% of the people with the influenza virus were people between 18 and 64 years, this age group definitely should be vaccinated this year.

Children between 2 and 8 years should get a modified flu shot called FluMist. It's a kind of spray vaccine that protects for four kinds of virus.

For pregnant women or for those expecting, the vaccine isn't recommended because it's a live vaccine.

In some other cases, the recommendation is to get three flu shots of vaccine. This kind of high-dose is the best protection against the flu.

The people over 65 years should get a combination vaccine to fight other diseases with pneumocal vaccines.

This protection is very effective for the flu virus and influenza virus. Another kind of illness like Enterovirus D68 can't be protected from this flu shot, said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The symptoms are almost the same and sometimes the hospitals receive both kinds of clinical cases at the same time. This kind of virus can infect a person at the same time, but this isn't very common.

Offit says that more than 100 youngs died last season from influenza. He recommends to parents to pay attention to the season and the risks of their children's life. He looks for the solution to see the importance of the diseases and to control them by this vaccine. It's so important and so easy to avoid dangerous risks to these people lives.

The pharmacy industry is able to provide to the market approximately 150 milion doses of the flu vaccine. The time to get the vaccine is now!!

Reference: http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/18/health/flu-shot/index.html?hpt=he_bn2