With the weather turning colder, the DeKalb County Board of Health continues to recommend getting a flu vaccine. It is not too late to protect yourself.
To encourage people to get their flu vaccine, the Board of Health has reduced its price to $15. The Board of Health offers the regular, the intradermal, the nasal mist and the high-dose flu vaccines.
A flu vaccine is recommended for everyone over six months of age. It’s especially important that the following individuals get vaccinated because they are at high risk of serious flu-related complications:
- Pregnant women
- Children younger than 5 years of age and especially children younger than 2 years of age
- People 50 years of age and older
- People of any age with certain chronic medical conditions
- People who live in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities
- People younger than 19 years of age who are receiving long-term aspirin therapy
- People who are morbidly obese (have a body mass index of 40 or greater)
- People who have a weakened immune system due to disease (like HIV/AIDS) or medication (like chronic steroids)
- Health care workers
- Household contacts of persons at high risk for flu complications
- Household contacts and out-of-home caregivers of children less than six months of age
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