What You Need to Know for the 2021-2022 Flu Season
CDC has answered some of the most frequently asked questions about the upcoming flu season. Find out about the composition of flu vaccines for this upcoming season, the types of flu vaccines that will be available, and more.
Influenza A viruses can be broken down into sub-types depending on the genes that make up the surface proteins. Over the course of a flu season, different types (A & B) and subtypes (influenza A) of influenza circulate and cause illness. These influenza viruses cause seasonal epidemics of disease (known as the flu season) almost every winter in the United States.
A recently released CDC study shows that a #fluvaccine is associated with less severe #flu illness in children, reducing their chance of having a flu-associated fever by nearly half. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3AdNQtJ
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