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influenza vaccines, influenza, vaccine, influenza, flu shot immunization, flu vaccine, vaccination protects people from contracting influenza, a viral illness affecting the respiratory tract, "flu" outbreaks typically occur in winter months, symptoms of influenza include fever, chills, muscle aches, cough, the illness, only lasts 3 to 7 days, have more severe cases, complications that, require hospitalization, thousands of people, die each year, the result, the flu, its complications, most of those who die, the elderly, young children, compromised immune systems, viruses that cause influenza change rapidly, influenza vaccines, developed each year to protect people, strains expected to be most prevalent, all the viruses, in the vaccine, killed, it is not possible to get the flu, vaccine, experience a low-grade fever afterwards, immune systems gear up to recognize the virus, flu vaccination, beginning, the "flu season", late october, early november, people traveling to other countries, aware that influenza, occur at different times, the year in other areas, immunization schedule, vaccine, high-risk people 6 months, older, in contact, household contacts, all people 50 years, older, adults, children, chronic lung, heart disease, sickle cell anemia, hemoglobinopathies, residents of nursing homes, extended care facilities, residents of any institution housing people, chronic health problems, kidney disease, anemia, severe asthma, chronic metabolic illnesses, diabetes, chronic liver disease, immunological deficits, cancer, hiv/aids, people receiving long-term treatment, steroids, pregnant women who, past the 3rd month of pregnancy, flu season, want to consider requesting the mercury-free flu vaccine, children, teenagers receiving long-term aspirin therapy, vaccine is also recommended, health care providers attending to high-risk people, health care personnel in hospital, outpatient, extended care facilities, home health care, family members attending, needs, high-risk people in home, influenza vaccine is encouraged, healthy children 6-23 months of age, contacts/caretakers, household contacts/caretakers of infants less than 6 months of age, people who provide essential community services, people living in dormitories, crowded conditions, anyone who wants to reduce change of getting influenza, children under age 9, require two shots one month apart the first time that they receive influenza vaccine, people, require a single shot each year, benefits, most people achieve protection from influenza vaccine approximately 2 weeks after receiving the immunization, immunization of high-risk people decreases many potential deaths from influenza, immunization of those caring, high-risk people decreases the potential of spreading the "flu" from otherwise healthy people to those who, at higher risk of complications, most people have no side effects, influenza vaccine, soreness, injection site, minor aches, low grade fever present, several days, unlike the swine flu vaccine used in1976, flu vaccines in recent years have shown no association, guillain-barre syndrome, gbs, in children, an extremely small increase, in the risk of gbs in adults, 1 more case per million persons immunized, risk is far outweighed by the amount, severe influenza prevented by immunization, the case, drug, vaccine, remote possibility that allergic reactions, serious reactions, death, occur after receiving the flu shot, delay, not give, influenza vaccine, withheld, following after consultation, the primary care provider, persons, a severe allergic reaction to chickens, egg protein, a fever, illness that is more than "just a cold", anyone who has exhibited a moderate to severe reaction after a previous influenza shot, might be, first trimester of pregnancy, first 3 months of pregnancy, anyone who has ever been paralyzed, due to guillain-barre syndrome, post-immunization symptoms and care, watch, familiar, how to treat minor side effects, injection site tenderness, low grade fever, primary health care provider, uncertain influenza vaccine, delayed, withheld, given to a specific person, moderate, serious adverse effects appear, influenza injection has been given, questions, concerns related, influenza immunization.