HSE Flu Vaccine Winter 2020 Information

Facts about flu:

• Flu causes death and hospitalisation every year.
• Flu vaccine is the best protection against flu for at risk groups and health care workers.
• You need to get flu vaccine every season as the viruses change every year.
• Flu vaccine contains killed viruses - it cannot give you flu.
• Healthcare workers are up to 10 times more likely to get flu.
• Healthy people can have flu without any obvious symptoms and pass it on.

Reference: HSE: Flu vaccination information