The best way to reduce your risk from seasonal flu and its potentially serious complications is to get a flu vaccine every year.
Everyone 6 months and older should get a flu vaccine every season with rare exceptions.
Flu vaccination has important benefits. It can reduce flu illnesses, visits to doctor’s offices, and missed work and school due to flu, as well as make symptoms less severe and reduce flu-related hospitalizations and deaths in people who get vaccinated but still get sick.