Covid actions like increased hand hygiene and reduced social contact have helped wipe out the flu during winter months. “This influenza season is exceptional since the creation of the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System network in 1952,” it said. It recently emerged that 120,000 doses of the children’s flu vaccine had to be discarded after they went out of date due to low take-up. It was the first time children were offered a free nasal flu vaccine. Scientists are now trying to come up with the strains to include in next winter’s flu vaccine.

Source: Irish Independent March 22, 2021 02:26 UTC