As flu season sets in, the Quebec government offers about two millions flu vaccines across the province, but now the health ministry is questioning the benefits of the program. The National Public Health Institute of Quebec is now tasked with finding out how effective the flu vaccine is and who it actually protects in the long term. Dr. Gaston De Serres, a medical epidemiologist at the institute and heading the team looking into the report, spoke with CBC Montreal's Homerun about the vaccination program in Quebec. On the possibility of not advising healthy, young people to be vaccinated"I don't know. There are several scientific theories which may explain that and we don't know which is right.

Source: CBC News September 29, 2016 02:03 UTC