Vaccination is a highly effective method of preventing influenza

21 October 2019, Monday

Influenza affects one in ten adults and one in three children, one in seven cases gets serious complications according to WHO. World and domestic experience against influenza shows that vaccination is a highly effective and highly specific method of influenza prevention.

Timely vaccination prevents up to 90% of the incidence of influenza among healthy people and up to 70% reduces the likelihood of hospitalizations due to pneumonia and other complications after influenza.