Goertzen launches flu shot campaign

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Steinbach MLA Kelvin Goertzen helped kick off the province’s free influenza immunization campaign in Steinbach on Friday morning.

Goertzen, the province’s health minister, noted that flu vaccines protect not only the person getting the shot but helps to prevent serious illness for others, like newborns, who unable to receive it.

This year’s quadrivalent vaccine protects Manitobans against two influenza A strains and two influenza B strains. Manitobans over the age of 65 can also receive a pneumococcal vaccine which helps protect against pneumonia, blood infections and meningitis.

Southern Health will begin flu shot clinics at the end of October. A schedule of those clinics should arrive in the mailboxes of Southeast residents during the week of Oct. 10. Clinic schedules can also be found at www.southernhealth.ca.

More information about the flu can be found on the provincial government’s website.