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Coronavirus: advice to stop the spread. Extra restrictions are in place for Kildare, Laois and Offaly
Flu Vaccination
Facts about flu
Flu causes death and hospitalisation every year.
Flu vaccine is the best protection against flu for at risk groups and health care workers.
You need to get flu vaccine every season as the viruses change every year.
Flu vaccine contains killed viruses - it cannot give you flu.
Healthcare workers are up to 10 times more likely to get flu.
Healthy people can have flu without any obvious symptoms and pass it on.