{"id":60030,"date":"2015-01-24T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=60030"},"modified":"2015-01-24T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:00:17","slug":"theres-still-time-to-get-an-influenza-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/01\/24\/theres-still-time-to-get-an-influenza-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s still time to get an influenza shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>VW County Health Dept. information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert County Health Department would like to remind the public that is not too late to obtain a flu vaccine for this season\u2019s influenza. Vaccination remains the best protection against the flu, its severity and potential serious complications.<\/p>\n<p>County residents who have not received a flu shot this season and would like to obtain one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/05\/odh-spring-good-time-to-get-vaccinated\/vaccination-artwork-5-2014\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51563\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-51563\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"MGN Online graphic\" alt=\"Vaccination artwork 5-2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Vaccination-artwork-5-2014.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Ages 6 months to 18 years and ages 65 and older may receive a flu shot at the Van Wert County Health Department. Call 419.238.0808, extension 103 or 107, to schedule an appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Ages 19-64 should visit a pharmacy to obtain a flu shot.<\/p>\n<p>Influenza is a respiratory disease caused by a virus. Symptoms may include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has any of these symptoms should contact a physician. Anti-viral medications are most effective when used early in the course of the disease. Other effective ways to avoid getting or spreading influenza include hand washing; covering coughs and sneezes; avoiding touching eyes, nose and mouth and staying home when sick until fever-free for 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW County Health Dept. information The Van Wert County Health Department would like to remind the public that is not too late to obtain a flu vaccine for this season\u2019s influenza. Vaccination remains the best protection against the flu, its severity and potential serious complications. County residents who have not received a flu shot this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 23:06:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}