Who should receive the flu vaccine?

• People of 65 years and older
• Pregnant women: ask advice at your doctor
• People who live together with children younger than 6 months
• People who live in an institution
• People who work in healthsystem
• Patients with a longterm illness:
  • lung diseases, for example: asthma, chronic lung disease
  • hartdiseases exept high blood pressure
  • liverdiseases
  • kidneydiseases
  • diabetes, diseases of the thyriod gland
  • patients with lower immunity, for example: cancerpatients, HIV

AND caregivers of the people mentioned above

When should you receive your vaccination?

The vaccination preferably occurs in November. This offers you a protection against the most common flu types for 6 months. The vaccination should be repeated each year around the same time.