Influenza infection affects millions of people every year, hundreds of thousands of people get hospitalized while tens of thousands succumb to the flu every year. Vaccination has been shown to have reduced hospitalizations, risk of flu illness and flu-related death in children. For the 2018-2019 influenza season, CDC advises use of age-appropriate and any licensed influenza vaccine along with recombinant influenza vaccine (RIV), inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) or live attenuated ... Read more
