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THE HSE IS urging people in at-risk groups to get vaccinated against influenza.
Flu season is now here, and the HSE warns that flu can be a very serious illness, especially for people who are older or who have a long-term illness.
Uptake
National uptake figures show that 56.5 per cent of people aged 65 and over who hold a medical card or GP visit card received the flu vaccine during the 2011-2012 flu season.
This is down from 60 per cent during the 2010-2011 season and less than the World Health Organization target of 75 per cent.
The HSE advises the following groups of at-risk people to get vaccinated against seasonal influenza:
Virus strains
This year’s seasonal flu vaccine protects against the three common flu virus strains expected to be circulating this year based on advice from the World Health Organization. The HSE notes that it is important for all those in the at risk groups to be vaccinated again this year as the virus strains in the vaccine have changed.
Seasonal flu vaccines are safe and have been given for more than 60 years to millions of people across the world. Reactions are generally mild and serious side effects are very rare.
It also says that healthcare workers, including doctors, nurses, therapists and carers also need to get the seasonal flu vaccine every year.
Head of the HSE’s National Immunisation Office, Dr Brenda Corcoran said:
Flu is very infectious and can cause potentially serious illnesses especially for older people, those who have a chronic illness and pregnant women. Seasonal flu vaccine can be given at any stage of pregnancy and also protects the baby. The flu vaccine cannot give you the flu as it does not contain any live flu virus and all those at risk should get vaccinated as soon as possible this year to make sure that they are protected.
She added that flu is spread by coughing and sneezing so people should cover their nose and mouth with a tissue, disposing of the tissue as soon as possible and washing their hands with soap and water as soon as possible to help prevent it spreading.
Some people in the at-risk groups may also need pneumococcal vaccine which is available from GPs. The HSE has a dedicated immunisation website at www.immunisation.ie
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The only problem here is vulture media who won’t leave them alone. Nothing else
Just let them be. G’way!
I wish them well, life is challenging enough for each of us…….
Best of luck to them, the British public seem to think they are their property and need permissions do it. 2 people with a baby trying to do what’s right for their family. Andrew did a whole lot worse and there wasn’t as much uproar! Leave them be. WW3 could be about to go off then the lot of them could be gone.
@olivia smith: I think you mean the British press .
@bmul: read the comments on the Daily Mail it is the media AND the public. Britain is a very racist place. I lived there briefly and I had never been called a Mick or Paddy in any other country but it was daily event while there
@bmul: No I mean the British public, have you read any of the comments on Twitter or Instagram? It’s seriously shocking the things the public are saying. The press are as bad but the people seem to think they have to give them permission to do what they choose.
@Craic_a_tower: one person’s banter is another person’s racism I suppose. I was in london for 7 years and I never took any offense to the odd paddy or potato joke. Maybe it’s just me but if thats the worst anyone has to say then I think iv had it easy. Just my experience
@Craic_a_tower: you had a bad experience sorry for that but if it’s so bad why have many thousands made it home .
@olivia smith: so a few idiots on Twitter represent 66 million people .
@bmul: It’s hardly a few, Iv read quiet a lot of them today. Hi have a look. It’s all moaning about them paying back the tax payers money for the wedding and the repairs to the house.
@olivia smith: well they do want to step back from duties but keep a house that tax payers put 2.4 million into
@bmul: lots of irish people are racists too. Being irish it was mild but a complete strangers making fun of where I come from is simply racist not banter. I didn’t have one bad experience it was constant. Even when I travelled over for work there clients would be casually racist. The minority groups are also racist. Home grown terrorists and segregated areas show Britian for what it is.
@bmul: The house belongs to the royal family, I’m sure it won’t go to waste.
@olivia smith: They are the British peoples property.Who pays the bills for these two wasters?
@Robert Dungan: Your views are are exactly why they are going. Give your head a wobble. He was born into it he didn’t chooses it. They are their own propose nobody owns them.
@olivia smith: I don’t know. I think yer wan is a bit of a nut job… I feel sorry for Harry. Poor guy is well isolated now if their is a problem with her personality
GENIUS headline in WWN “Unemployed Couple Emigrate For Better Quality Of Life; A mixed race couple who have been living off of state benefits for a number of years have decided to emigrate from the UK to America in a bid to secure a better quality of life.”
Harry was a child when the media hounded Diana into an early grave and left him without a mother. He didn’t want that happening to his son, whatever you think of the royals you can’t say Harry didn’t make the right decision
@Jake Kelly: good comment Jake.
@Jake Kelly: a lot of people are commenting that the media killed diana. It’s not exactly true. Yes they hounded her etc but it was her driver that was drunk at the wheel that crashed. Just saying
@Jake Kelly:
Harry once stated “I will not be bullied into carrying a game that killed my mum.”
Good luck to them.
@Peter Coen: .. d63q7
@Jake Kelly: if he’s victims to an emotional abuser then this story could bolster her agenda in a bid to isolate him. I like this guy so I hope he will be okay. I have a feeling she’s big trouble for him though…poor fella
Who cares. Leave them off do their own thing.
Seems to me they couldn’t do anything right according to the media. It’s hardly that much of a shock that a couple with a young child want a life outside a goldfish bowl. Leave them be.
The British press are jackal $kum.
@Roy O’Rourke: Irish not far behind. Its here after all
Oh would you feck right off with this BS.
Will everyone leave them alone to live there lives
Prince Andrew must have thought all his birthdays came at once reading that statement last night. The spotlight has shifted permanently.
Megxit? Please tell me this is not what the media are actually using as a word for this news. Puke
Not interested in the affairs of foreign royal family – only illustrates the futility of heridtary
@PMBinARG: interested enough to open the article and comment though!
Day 2 of looking for anything this has to do with us. Couldn’t be less private for them
I think Megan is findind this royal gig a tough role to play.A case of buyers regret….hence wanting to head back to N.America.
She’s mixed race, that’s the core issue people have,
@Stevie Doran: That’s very correct, but it’s mind boggling since they have for years being inter married. Cousins etc. Plus Andrew was hanging round with a kiddy trafficker but that’s ok.
@Stevie Doran: She’s obnoxious.
@Robert Dungan: pot and kettle there mate
@olivia smith: black?
Hilarious watching the old dude on the news plastered with union jack badges whoes disgusted by them making their own announcements “the monachry should do that, making their own announcements is unheard of”. All these monarchists are bonkers
#MEGXIT
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