A free walk-in flu vaccine clinic for children will be held in Gurranabraher today from 10am to 1pm.
Children are given the nasal vaccine by spraying the vaccine once into each nostril. It is a quick and painless spray.
Children can breathe normally, it doesn’t hurt and many of them report that it barely tickles when being given.
Dr Rebecca Marshall, specialist registrar in public health medicine, said: “Children are twice as likely to get flu and remain infectious for longer, compared with adults.
“They are also at higher risk of severe illness, complications and hospitalisation.
“Young children, in particular, are more likely than adults to be very sick and admitted to hospital because of flu.
“The best way to protect your family from severe flu is to get the children’s flu vaccine,” Dr Marshall said.
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