Flu is officially circulating in the U.S., so getting a flu shot as soon as you can is the best way to stay healthy.

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Flu often causes more severe illness than cold viruses. It can even lead to hospitalization or death. Luckily, there's an annual vaccine to prevent flu! While the vaccine isn't 100% effective at preventing flu, it does drastically lower your chance of severe illness, hospitalization, and death.

Spreading false information to the contrary is reckless and threatens to endanger our communities. Families deserve to have access to evidence-based information so they can confidently make health decisions.

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Let's be clear: immunization is one of the most powerful, effective, and safe health interventions we have. Dozens of large-scale studies involving millions of children around the world have found no link between vaccines and autism.

It's been used in some vaccines for over 75 years. And years of research has found no evidence that it causes chronic health problems. Without aluminum, vaccines would not work as well and kids would be less protected from disease!

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In fact, most aluminum from vaccines leaves our bodies very quickly, and the remaining amount does not build up to dangerous levels. Aluminum in vaccines helps create a stronger immune response, so we need fewer doses.

Aluminum may sound scary, but it's actually the most common metal found in nature. It's found in air, water, soil, and breast milk. The amount of aluminum in vaccines is very small compared to what we encounter every day. It isn't dangerous.

Both use the same natural tools in the body's immune system toolbox, but vaccines offer a safer pathway to immunity from diseases--without the risks that come from getting sick!

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Respiratory viruses like flu, COVID-19, and RSV, tend to circulate in the fall and winter, which is why now is the perfect time to get vaccines that protect against them.

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That's why it's important to keep vaccinating. If we let up, we could see a resurgence in a disease that once paralyzed 15,000 people in the U.S. each year.

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Global polio vaccination campaigns have worked so well that cases have declined by over 99%, and just two countries still see wild polio spread. But, until polio is eradicated fully, the disease will remain just a plane ride away.

Respiratory viruses like flu, COVID-19, and RSV, circulate in the fall and winter, so now is the perfect time to get vaccinated against them!

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The good news? Everyone 6 months and older can get an updated vaccine this fall! The COVID vaccine lowers your chance of severe illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19.

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It's not possible for the components of the vaccine to enter the nucleus of our cells, and therefore it can't change our DNA.

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