HEALTH TIPS: More help from the flu shot 3
Health Tip – Audio Version - More help from the flu shot 3
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Inactivated Influenza Vaccine: What You Need to Know (PDF – KB) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Dr. Harlan Krumholz of Yale says people with heart disease should get inactivated virus vaccine from a flu shot rather than weakened live virus of a nasal spray.
“We think it’s safest for them to go with the inactivated route – that is, the shot. If you get the shot, with the inactivated vaccine, that’s the way to go.”
Health Tip courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Last revised: September, 26 2006