Flu Vaccines available from October 13

Odessa Clinic has now received its private shipment flu vaccine and part of the State Supplied Vaccine for children. By the time, this article is read; we anticipate all flu vaccine should have arrived.

This seems to be a good time to discuss the importance of a yearly flu vaccine, even if you are a healthy person. While we have always encouraged people with health problems such as asthma, lung or heart disease and diabetics to get vaccinated; healthy people get sick with flu all the time as well. The flu virus does not discriminate. We saw this in the 2013-2014 flu season when many healthy yo...