Not good at all! I had a very bad Virus recently and it knocked me around very badly.

How scarey esoecially for the vulnerable, the very young, very old and tge already ill

I’ve never had a flu shot, I’m actually a bit worried as I’ve heard of bad side effects, even heard a lady talking to a pharmacist saying “I never had this problem until I had the flu shot”. Not sure what it was about. But I would like to know what else was going on with the 3 children. Very sad. i have a 6 and 11 year old so it’s very concerning. There are so many variations of the flu/colds though which are always evolving.

No, it’s not late. Even if they are running out of it. It will then take 3-4 weeks to be fully protected. I got mine this morning.

The flu is so bad this year. I was contemplating getting the vaccination but I think it’s too late now

I have decided that this year I will get a flu shot. I’m booked in at my local pharmacy tomorrow morning. My daughter is 16 and they told me that you must be at least 18 to get the vaccination at the pharmacy. So I booked her in at the local medical centre next week.

Terrible! I have gotten myself and baby vaccinated. Now just to get my husbands butt into gear and get him done.

Our whole family vaccinates every year.

It’s clearly going to be a very long, bad flu season this year.

Its sad not more people are getting the vaccine thinking its all for profit. It’s there to protect

It is RIFE I had my flu vax as I work.in a hospital….we have had a few cases on our ward it is really awful for the people who get it…..they feel awful…

My 2 year old currently has it. His temperature has been 39 degrees constantly for 5 days now even with the help of panadol and neurofen which brings it down slightly then its straight back up as soon as that wears off. Hes not sleeping properly, not eating and is so sick the poor little mite. I would do anything to take it away from him. We had the flu shot the day before he fell ill, but unfortunately 2 days prior had been in contact with a child in his child care who was later diagnosed with the flu, so the injection was no good because he wold already have had it

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  • • Ellen replied
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  Aw bless, hope he get better soon !

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    • • Mum2archer replied
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    Thank you. He is much better now, but still has a really bad cough and still isn’t 100%, poor baby

I heard a couple of weeks ago that there has already been over 10,000 confirmed cases and there is often a lot more later in the year.

My daughter was down with flu last week. But nothing too serious luckily.

I’m intrigued to know if any of these people had the flu jab a d still contacted another strain of the virus.
I am all for immunisation but I get a bit suspicious of the flu shot because it changes every year and every year the flu gets worse . Maybe we need to rethink the flu?

This is exactly why I get all of us a flu jab. Its just too scary to think what might happen.

Woah, that is a high death rate !
It didn’t hit our house yet, thankfully our family doesn’t get sick a lot with colds and flu’s

Scary how prevalent it already is.

I am amazed that the flu kills so many people every year. I don’t remember it being quite so deadly when I was a child. A good reason to holiday in Australia as most diseases are being brought in via people visiting overseas