Department of Health Urge More People To Get Flu Vaccine

The Department of Health remains concerned about the number of vulnerable people on the Island who have not yet received the seasonal flu vaccine.

In the UK alone there have been 10 deaths attributed to Swine Flu in the past three months, most of those who died had underlying health conditions.

The Health Protection Agency has urged people in at-risk groups to get immunised - flu is a vaccine-preventable illness.

Its been identified that people at greatest risk include children and young adults with diabetes, difficult to control asthma and other chronic illnesses that if they don’t come forward for the vaccine and this will leave them at risk from complications.