Deaths and pneumonia have decreased as much as 90% since the start using the vaccine. That is surely one reason to get these each year.
Each flu vaccine is targeted to specific varieties of the flu virus. Unless another type of flu is very similar to the targeted virus, it will not be prevented with that vaccine. Having said that, since the 2010-2011 flu season through to the current 2011-2012 season, the "regular" seasonal flu vaccine, which always contains three types of flu vaccine (trivalent), has included the swine flu along with the other two varieties to which the vaccine was targeted. So in that sense, at least currently, the swine flu vaccination is effective against the regular flu since vaccines for each type are put together in one vaccination.
interval- flu vaccine and the shingles vaccine
Yes, you can get flu vaccine and varicella vaccine at the same time.
Q-pan is the approved vaccine for Avian Flu or H5N1.
No, the ingredients in the flu vaccine are not harmful to our health. The vaccine is carefully tested and regulated to ensure its safety and effectiveness in preventing the flu.
The flu vaccine is recommended for children and the elderly but nobody is forced to get it. Whether or not to get a flu vaccine is a personal choice.
how long is flu vaccine good for if left out of the refrigerator
no
Polio vaccine was the first vaccine introduced in the late 1950s.
Currently specifics of that are unknown. Since the 2011-2012 flu season, H1N1/09 is no longer being tracked separately from other flu-like-illnesses now that the pandemic is over. However, it is still found in isolated outbreaks across the world and is expected to be among the circulating seasonal flu types for some time into the foreseeable future. The vaccine has been included in the trivalent seasonal flu vaccines since the 2010-2011 flu season, after its initial development as a monovalent vaccine in 2009. It is once again included in the flu vaccine for the current 2013-2014 flu season.
The vaccine was first distributed just at the beginning of the 2009 flu season in the Northern Hemisphere. It is included in the regular seasonal flu vaccination again in the 2011-2012 flu season.
No. The influenza vaccine is only for preventing respiratory influenza (flu).The norovirus ("Norwalk Flu") is one of the viruses that cause the "stomach flu", more correctly called viral gastroenteritis, since it is actually not the flu. There is no available vaccine yet, but one is in clinical trials, so it could be licensed for use in the US in a relatively short time.