Certain medical staff or family members who provide care for high-risk patients also should be vaccinated, to reduce the possibility that patients might catch the flu from them when receiving care. Travelers to foreign countries where flu is prevalant. Children who receive long-term aspirin therapy might be at risk of developing Reye's syndrome following an influenza infection. Any individual who requests the vaccine to reduce the risk of developing influenza. Women who will be in the second or third trimester of pregnancy during the influenza season.
Most people have no side effects from recent influenza vaccines.
As is the case with most drugs or vaccines, there is a possibility that allergic or more serious reactions, or even death, could occur with the flu shot. However, if you are an older individual on chronic aspirin therapy, you may continue. There is a risk of a temporary paralysis, known as Guillain Barre Syndrome, associated with influenza vaccines. This syndrome was associated with the swine flu vaccine in 1976. Individuals with a fever should not be vaccinated until the fever is gone.