Influenza & Colds
Who should have the flu vaccine - NHS UK
The flu vaccine is recommended for people at higher risk of getting seriously ill from flu.
It's offered on the NHS every year in autumn or early winter.
You can get the free NHS flu vaccine if you:
- are aged 65 or over (including those who will be 65 by 31 March 2026)
- have certain long-term health conditions
- are pregnant
- live in a care home
- are the main carer for an older or disabled person, or receive a carer's allowance
- live with someone who has a weakened immune system
Frontline health and social care workers can also get a flu vaccine through their employer.
For more information visit the UK Government's website for the 2025/26 Flu Season
- Influenza / Seasonal Flu - CDC155221
- Pandemic Influenza - CDC 200581
- Flu vaccines: 2025 to 2026 flu season - UK Government501258
- Flu Vaccine - NHS501259
- Flu - NHS501260
- Flusurvey202477
- Pandemic Influenza - OSHA (US)155226
- Influenza Infection Control - Wikipedia155227
- Flu News Europe - ECDC204701
- Norovirus - CDC329154
- Influenza - WHO155232
- Influenza - Wikipedia155233
- Influenza A - Wikipedia155234
- Influenza B - Wikipedia155238
- Influenza Vaccine - Wikipedia155239
- Pneumococcal Vaccine - Wikipedia155240
- Prognosis - Influenza - Wikipedia202479
- Wir gegen Viren - RKI (Germany)155244
- How to Treat Laryngitis - wikiHow155245
- Vocal hygiene for chronic laryngitis155246
- @CDCFlu196790
- Estimates of global seasonal influenza-associated respiratory mortality: a modelling study - The Lancet 202478
- Flu-Related Costs Soaring As Trust in Public Health Wanes - Raul Krauthausen 31.12.25503298
- Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) infection - WHO 10.01.25459666
- UK secures five million doses of human H5 influenza vaccine - BMJ 04.12.24446045
- How to Prevent Norovirus - CDC 01.11.24440809
- Podcast: From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? - Guardian 25.04.24411069
- Norovirus On the Rise: How to Avoid this ‘Stomach Flu’ - Healthline 13.02.23329152
- US registers rise in highly infectious norovirus causing stomach illness - Guardian 11.02.23329151
- Oh, No. Time to Worry About Norovirus Again. - NYT 10.02.23329153
- Do You Have Covid, Flu or R.S.V.? - NYT 13.12.22319571
- Multiple infections could make us much sicker – strep A, RSV and flu are a dangerous mix - Guardian 12.12.22319335
- Flu Season Is Here And This Is Why You Should Take It Seriously - BuzzFeed News 27.09.22307291
- Flu levels remain low in UK despite spread of Omicron, data shows - Guardian 06.01.22270972
- Video: Why we need a better flu shot - Vox 17.12.21266779
- Not a single case of flu detected by Public Health England this year as Covid restrictions suppress virus - Independent 25.02.21236474
- Wonder how many people in the US will continue to wear a mask indoors - @tmprowell 30.01.21236513
- Flu and Covid: winter could bring 'double-barrel' outbreak to US, experts say - Guardian 8/20217039
- What happens when flu meets Covid-19? - Guardian 7/20214269
- We’re Not Ready for a Flu Pandemic - NY Times 1/18205240
- Pandemic Influenza Risk Management: A WHO guide to inform & harmonize national & international pandemic preparedness and response [EN/AR/RU/ZH] - ReliefWeb 5/17205420
- Recommended composition of influenza virus vaccines for use in the 2017-2018 northern hemisphere influenza season - WHO 3/17155250
- Dr. Mercola: First Thing To Do When a Cold or Flu Strikes (?) - Dr. Mercola 11/15155256
- Top 5 Ways to Prevent the Flu this Season ! - Howdini 10/14155251
- Surveillance of influenza and other seasonal respiratory viruses in the UK, winter 2021 to 2022 - UK Gov 6/14213049
- How to prevent the seasonal flu 1/13155252
- WHO and the pandemic flu “conspiracies” - BMJ 6/10407679
- What You Can Do to Prevent Cold or Flu (?) - Dr. Mercola 10/09155257
- Explore flu trends around the world - Google (no longer)155258
- flu - Ages221309
- Professor John Watson Biography - UK Gov226972