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| Bonnie Nelson, public health nurse for the Five Hills Health Region (FHHR), demonstrates with Willeke Gals how the FluMist nasal vaccine process would work at the Moose Jaw public health office on Thursday. Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy |
By Lisa Goudy
A few hundred doses of FluMist vaccine are available in the Five Hills Health Region (FHHR).
By appointment only, the nasal vaccine is licensed
to use for anyone between the ages of two and 59. Dr. Mark Vooght, chief
medical officer with the FHHR, said there is a “relatively limited
(supply of) injectable vaccine,” but the injectable flu vaccines are set
aside for infants, pregnant women, people with compromised immune
systems and now also for anyone over the age of 60.
However, anyone from six months of age to seniors can phone in for an appointment to get vaccinated with the suitable vaccine.
“It is not a killed vaccine. It is a live, weakened
vaccine and that is precisely why we don’t give it to pregnant women and
we don’t give it to people whose immune systems are taking a knock at
the moment,” said Vooght. “The reason for that is it could cause illness
in those people and we don’t want that to happen.”
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