Influenza Vaccination
We recommend influenza vaccination for all business travellers. Influenza can attack fit healthy persons. Staff with influenza lose days off work. This can cause significant inconvenience while travelling, as well as in the home office. Some influenza infected staff remain at work and infect others, so there are more staff days lost as it spreads to other staff.
Flu Fast Facts
- Influenza can be a serious disease with significant complications and restriction of day to day activities.
- Influenza vaccine is especially important in persons with medical problems or who are smokers or significantly overweight ( BMI>30 )
- Symptoms of influenza include the sudden onset of fever, muscle pain, sore throat, dry cough, headache, and tiredness which may persist for several weeks
- Flu vaccine has been shown to be very effective at preventing influenza.
- Flu vaccine does not prevent the common cold.
- Flu vaccine cannot give you the flu.
- Flu vaccine is given in the arm and takes 2 weeks to be fully protective.
- Most people have no significant problems from the vaccine.
- Discomfort, redness and swelling at the injection site is the most common side effect.
- Very Occasionally - fever, tenderness in the muscles and tiredness may occur within a few hours of vaccination and may last 1-2 days
Our doctors will usually recommend influenza vaccine as part of a travel consultation, however
MARCH every year is the time the new influenza vaccine is released.
To make an appointment to come in for an influenza - call us on 07 3221 9066 or email clinic@thetraveldoctor.com.au.
Workplace flu vaccination is a cost effective way to improve productivity
For Workplace Flu programs delivered to your workplace - we recommend Medimobile. Tell them we sent you.
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