Influenza Viruses and Flu Vaccination: Understanding Your Immune System

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of flu vaccination and how to protect yourself from influenza viruses.

Should you get vaccinated against the flu this year? That is the question we are trying to answer in this episode of Travelling Science! We will be discussing how the influenza virus spreads between us and what you can do to protect yourself from getting sick this winter, vaccinated or not. We will also talk about how the flu vaccine works, what it contains, and why we need a new influenza vaccination every single year. Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/dLGkPRxIywA Get guest upda...

People in this episode

Host: Jesse Crowe

Topics covered

• influenza viruses
• flu vaccination
• immune system
• health
• prevention

Keywords

• influenza
• flu vaccine
• immune system
• vaccination
• health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Travelling Science

Products: flu vaccine

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