March 8, 2022
Flu shot: Your best bet for avoiding influenza
The flu shot is given free on the NHS for those aged over 50 and people who have certain health conditions or who are more likely to get infections. If...
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February 11, 2022
How Does the Influenza Vaccine Work in the Body?
Flu season comes around every year. The past few years have seen low numbers of flu cases due to lockdown and other COVID measures which have, in turn, dramatically decreased...
January 20, 2022
Key Facts About Seasonal Flu Vaccine
The Flu is not fun to experience. You can experience all sorts of symptoms that may even be similar to COVID symptoms. You should have the flu vaccine to decrease...
December 17, 2021
Flu Shot and the COVID-19 Vaccine: Do I Need Both?
The Flu and COVID-19 are both illnesses that can give you a fever, chills and can lead to severe respiratory illness. There are vaccines for both, but do you need...
November 18, 2021
Why the Flu Shot is Especially Important for Kids and Seniors?
The flu is a serious illness. Whilst some folks confuse the common cold with the flu, the flu is much more severe and even life-threatening, particularly for young children and...
September 26, 2021
The Ultimate Guide to Flu Vaccination
What is the flu? The flu is an infectious respiratory illness that you can catch all year round. Even so, there are some times of the year considered the flu “season”...
August 10, 2021
Top 3 Myths About the Flu Vaccine
Now that it is cold and flu season, you should book your flu vaccine if you have not done so already. The flu vaccine is the best way to protect...
July 20, 2021
What are the Side Effects of the Flu Jab?
The annual flu vaccine is one of the most safe and effective vaccines that protects people at risk of becoming seriously ill from the flu. Whilst many people may experience...
June 21, 2021
How is Flu Different from Common Cold?
Have you been feeling under the weather? Are you laid flat out in bed, or just feeling rough but able to cope? Do you feel like one more step worse...
April 15, 2021
How the Flu Vaccine Works?
As the COVID vaccine program is increasingly more successful here in the UK, it remains important to be vigilant about not catching flu. Flu can be very serious, even requiring...
February 15, 2021
Flu shot: Your Best Bet for Avoiding Influenza
Flu is a seasonal illness and the flu vaccine is an annual injection, as each year the prevailing flu strains change and the vaccine is adjusted to reflect this. This...
December 11, 2020
How Effective was the Flu Shot in 2020?
Because of the Coronavirus pandemic, the flu shot in 2020 was more important than ever. The UK government has extended the free vaccine to millions more people in what has...
December 3, 2020
Time for Flu Shots – getting one is more important than ever!
New data from Public Health England suggests that people infected with both Covid-19 and flu between January and April were more at risk of serious illness and death. The risk...
November 30, 2020
What Every Parent Should Know About the Flu Vaccine?
Children don’t seem to suffer from flu in the same way adults do but they are much more likely to catch and spread influenza. They will have large volumes of...
November 25, 2020
How to Prevent Yourself from Getting the Flu Again?
With all the focus on Covid-19, it is easy to overlook seasonal flu although the government is encouraging everyone to have a flu vaccination this year and has extended the...
July 2, 2020
Flu jab: It’s about doing the right thing
It’s easy to forget about other illness in the current Covid-19 pandemic but within six months, the winter flu season will be here. Combined with the Coronavirus, this could prove...
April 24, 2020
Influenza Sign, Symptoms and Vaccination
The winter months are often referred to as flu season, as a greater proportion of the population are affected by an influenza viral infection. Whilst the virus is no more...
March 18, 2020
How often should you have the flu vaccination?
The NHS is encouraging everyone over the age of 6 months to have a flu vaccination in the winter. Even if you are not at high risk due to age...
December 9, 2019
Flu Vaccination – What You Need to Know?
Influenza, or flu, is a nasty virus that can leave you feeling wiped out for weeks. Although it is sometimes thought of as ‘a bad cold’, flu can be completely...
July 12, 2019
Flu vaccination – What you need to know
Highly contagious and responsible for countless illnesses and some deaths every year, the flu is a viral infection you want to avoid. Also known as Influenza, the flu causes fever,...