date:Dec 20, 2013
ive the flu vaccine. Peoples immune systems inevitably weaken with age, making them less responsive to the vaccine and more susceptible to the flu and its potentially serious complications, said Meydani, who is also a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a member of the immunology program faculty at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, both at Tufts University. While flu vaccination is recommended for older people, the vaccine is only 40% effective