Flu
Season: When Does It Start?
Flu season starts to peak in November
and continues to peak through April. The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) recommend getting your flu vaccine in the months of October and November in order to
prevent an outbreak to the flu
virus. Every flu season a new batch of the flu
vaccine is made. Scientists consider what strains of the virus
are going to be a threat that flu season and develop the vaccine
accordingly. There are usually 3 deactivated or killed stains of
the flu virus in the vaccine each new flu season.
This flu season, due to vaccination shortages and new strains, the CDC is recommending
that specific priority groups get their vaccinations first. The priority group is as follows:
- Children between ages 6-23 months
- Adults aged 65+
- Individuals with chronic conditions aged
2-64
- Women who are pregnant or may become pregnant
- Residents of nursing homes/long term facilities
- Children between 6 months to 18 years of
age on chronic aspirin therapy
- Health care workers that work in direct patient
care
- Household contacts/out-side caregivers of
children under 6 months of age
People who have severe allergies
to chicken eggs or those who have Guillain-Barre syndrome (obtained
after a flu vaccine) should not receive get a flu vaccine.
The best tip for flu
prevention for those unable to get a flu
vaccination or for those in the priority group to further protect
them selves this flu season is to maintain a healthy immune system.
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a Scientifically Advanced homeopathic medicinal strategy engineered
to naturally support the function, and thereby the resistance, of
the Immune System. When the Immune System is weakened it is prone
to common bacterial and viral infections, including the flu
virus, colds, chronic fatigue, laryngitis, asthma and emphysema,
as well as bacillary dysentery, toxic radiation and chemical poisoning
(and the defective elimination of such poisons), vaccinal poisonings,
herpes simplex & zoster (shingles), mononucleosis and lymphadenitis,
anemia, typhoid and typhus fever, encephalitis, hepatitis, tuberculosis,
pneumonia, septic blood and auto-infections, and subsequent diminution
of the population of red blood cells. VÄXA Flu
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the Immune System.
For more information about precautions to take in the event of a flu shortage, and to learn more about previous flu seaons, please visit our information page about the 2004-2005 flu vaccine.
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