Herkimer County Public Health will hold a Flu Clinic for children and adults at the Town of Webb School in Old Forge on Thursday, November 7 from 3 to 6 p.m.
Limited other vaccines will be available for children. Flu shots and flu mist are now available for $20, or no charge to adults with Medicare/Medicare Replace-ment card, and no charge to children with Child Health Plus, Fidelis Medicaid/Managed Care or are uninsured. Continue reading
According the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) the time to get your flu shot is now. The flu shot or influenza vaccine is an inactivated vaccine given seasonally each year before December to individuals ages six months and up.
Because it is an inactivated vaccine it is not possible to get the flu from the vaccine itself.
In the February following the previous year’s flu season, scientists choose three strains of influenza and inoculate these into eleven-day-old fertile chicken eggs.
Therefore, individuals with an allergy to eggs should not receive the vaccine. Continue reading