Erie County Community Health center

Seasonal Influenza Updated Information

If you are interested in completing your flu vaccine registration form in advance click the link below, print out the Flu Vaccine Form and bring it with you to one of our clinics.

Flu Vaccine Administration Form

Outreach Clinic Flu Schedule

Vaccine Information

Flu Vaccine Information (shot)

Flu Vaccine Information (nasal spray)

The seasonal flu vaccine protects against three influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during this flu season. The 2011-2012 flu vaccine will protect against 2009 H1N1, and two other influenza viruses (an H3N2 virus and an influenza B virus). The viruses in the vaccine change each year based on surveillance and scientists’ estimations about which types and strains of viruses will circulate in a given year.

Who Should Get a Flu Shot?

While everyone should get a flu vaccine each flu season, it’s especially important that the following groups get vaccinated either because they are at high risk of having serious flu-related complications or because they live with or care for people at high risk for developing flu-related complications:

Pregnant Women
Children younger than 5, but especially children younger than 2 years old
People 50 years of age and older
People of any age with certain chronic medical conditions
People who live in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities
People who live with or care for those at high risk for complications from the flu, including:
Health care workers
Household contacts of persons at high risk for complications from the flu
Household contacts and out of home caregivers of children less than 6 months of age (these children are too young to be vaccinated)

Who Should NOT Get a Flu Shot?

People who have a severe allergy to chicken eggs
People who have had a severe reaction to an influenza vaccination
People who developed Guillain-Barre’ Syndrome within 6 weeks of getting an influenza vaccine
Children less than 6 months of age (influenza vaccine is not approved for this age group)
People who have a moderate-to-severe illness with a fever (they should wait until they recover to get vaccinated)

Visit CDC's website at http://www.flu.gov/ for more information.

PICTURE ID REQUIRED (ID of Parent/Guardian of Child)
IMMUNIZATION RECORDS REQUIRED FOR CHILDREN
A sliding fee scale will be applied as appropriate. Medicaid, Medicare, other insurances, and cash are accepted. Please contact the Erie County Health Department at (419) 626-5623 and ask for the Clinic Triage Nurse.