Doctors continue to encourage the population to get vaccinated against the flu.
Doctors continue to encourage the population to get vaccinated against the flu.
In addition, it is recommended that immunization be carried out annually, the president of the Romanian Society of Microbiology, Alexandru Rafila, told Radio Romania Actualității.
Alexandru Rafila: “Both after infection and after vaccination, immunity is not lasting in the case of this virus and for this reason we have to get vaccinated every year.
Even though we were vaccinated against, say, the AH1N1 virus the previous year, we have to do it again the following year.
This is the limit of the current flu shot.
We hope that the future will have a universal flu vaccine, which will ensure immunization for a longer period, for example five years.
There are quite advanced studies on this, but until then we have to use the vaccine that is available at the moment “.
