Important Reasons To Get Your Flu Shot Today

Protecting Your Newborn From The Flu

The best way to protect children from the influenza virus is by having them get their annual flu shot. The CDC estimates that since the 2004-2005 flu season, thirty-seven to one-hundred and seventy-one children died from the flu, annually. Children are more likely to get sick from the flu than adults, which is why it is important to have everyone over the age of six months vaccinated. Although children younger than six months old are too young to be vaccinated, they can still be protected. The best way to protect an infant from influenza is for the mother to get vaccinated during pregnancy and by making sure others around her are vaccinated as well.