The mayor urged residents to stay home from work or school if they are sick, and to get flu shots.
In a typical year, about 100 million people in the United States get flu shots and a fair amount of leftover vaccine must be destroyed at the end of the season.
And I encourage everyone else to get your flu shot, get your kids vaccinated, and then go see a movie at an AMC theater.
For a positive skin test, options may include avoiding the flu vaccine altogether and considering antiviral medicines if one does get the flu or receiving the vaccine slowly in small, divided doses while under close supervision.
But even if you do get the flu, the vaccine can protect against harsher complications.
If you do get the flu, Dolan recommends asking your doctor about anti-viral medications that may help.
It is important to note that you do not get the flu after receiving a flu shot.
When we get the flu, we just want to stay in bed and have someone care for us.
Get a flu vaccine, wash your hands frequently and well, and sneeze and cough into the crook of your elbow.
That said, it is still possible to get the flu, (a different circulating strain), but the chances are much less likely.
"The best thing you can do to protect yourself and your family is to get the flu shot, " Mayor Thomas Menino told reporters.
There is still an old school view on the emerging markets that if the U.S. gets a cold, then emerging markets get the flu.
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Meanwhile, get your flu shot, because the flu mutates so fast that we need a new vaccine every year to keep ahead of it.
If you are over the age of 50, are pregnant, have asthma, diabetes, chronic lung disease (such as COPD or emphysema), you should get a flu shot.
Even pregnant women, who are usually urged not to take medication which can be dangerous for a fetus, should take the antivirals if they get swine flu, she said.
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In the UK, only people aged over 65 or in at-risk categories are advised to get a flu jab, with take-up in the elderly category averaging between 72% and 75%.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends all pregnant women get the flu shot (the nasal spray vaccine is not recommended for pregnant women) to protect them from the virus.
She said that over the years she had been able to introduce a number of topics including the campaign for all pensioners' to get their flu jabs, with Jim Branning having his.
For example, employers might use lottery-based approaches to persuade workers to get their annual flu shots.
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She said she was expecting supplies to be replenished next month and noted that plenty of time remains to get the seasonal flu shot.
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In a contrast to U.S. policy, the World Health Organization recommends only six "priority populations" get "the flu jab, " as it's called in Britain.
It is not, in any case, that hard to protect yourself from infection, he adds, particularly in the United States, where an estimated 35% of adults get vaccinated for flu every year.
Particularly make sure your kids have gotten it, because there have been a significantly higher number of children killed under H1 -- who get H1N1 than those who just get the seasonal flu.
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