Flu Vaccine 60 Percent Effective So Far, CDC Says
Feb-27-2016

This year's flu vaccine is one of the most effective in years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

So far, people who got the vaccine were 59 percent less likely to get sick with influenza than people who didn't, the CDC said.

"This means that getting a flu vaccine this season reduced the risk of having to go to the doctor because of flu by nearly 60 percent," said the CDC's Dr. Joseph Bresee. "It's good news and underscores the importance and the benefit of both annual and ongoing vaccination efforts this season."

Flu usually hits the very young and the very old the hardest. Depending on the season, it kills anywhere between 4,000 and 50,000 people a year in the United States. CDC recommends that just about everyone get a flu shot every year but usually only about half of Americans do.

And flu vaccines are among the least effective vaccines available, because flu viruses mutate so fast.

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