Flu Jabs are given by intramuscular injection normally into the arm you don't write with. For adults and children over 13 years it is a single dose injection. For children under 13 years who have not been previously vaccinated, a second dose is given after 4-6 weeks. Children must be 6 months old to receive vaccine.

Even if you received SWINE FLU vaccination last year, you still need the WINTER FLU VACCINATION, and children normally need two (see above).

Jabs should not be given if you have had an anaphylactic reaction to hens eggs or are suffering from a fever.

The influenza viruses are constantly altering their structure. Every year the World Health Organisation recommends which strains the influenza vaccines should contain. As last winter, H1N1v is likely to still be one of the flu strains that will circulate during the 2011/12 flu season and therefore the trivalent seasonal flu vaccine for the coming flu season will protect against this strain and two others that are considered most likely to circulate (an A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)-like virus, an A/Perth/16/2009 (H3N2)-like virus and a B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus).

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