Health Department recommends flu shots for residents

The Influenza vaccine, recommended for everyone aged six months and older, is now available at Adams County Health Department clinics in Ritzville and Othello. The flu shot is safe and effective at preventing flu disease and illness. There is no live flu virus in flu shots so they cannot cause the flu.

An annual flu vaccine is the best way to protect an individual or family from the flu.

Flu vaccination can reduce flu illnesses; doctors’ visits, and missed work and school due to flu, as well as prevent flu-related hospitalizations.

The more people who get vaccinated, the more people will be pr...