Flu Vaccines Available at Homestead Community Center Florida. Influenza is a potentially serious disease that can lead to hospitalization and sometimes even death. Every flu season is different, and influenza infection can affect people differently, but millions of people get flu every year, hundreds of thousands of people are hospitalized and thousands to tens of thousands of people die from flu-related causes every year. An annual seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to help protect against flu.
How do flu vaccines work?
Flu vaccines cause antibodies to develop in the body about two weeks after vaccination. These antibodies provide protection against infection with the viruses that are used to make the vaccine.
The seasonal flu vaccine protects against the influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming season. Most flu vaccines in the United States protect against four different flu viruses (“quadrivalent”); an influenza A (H1N1) virus, an influenza A (H3N2) virus, and two influenza B viruses. There are also some flu vaccines that protect against three different flu viruses (“trivalent”); an influenza A (H1N1) virus, an influenza A (H3N2) virus, and one influenza B virus. Two of the trivalent vaccines are designed specifically for people 65 and older to create a stronger immune response.
Homestead Community Health Center in Miami Dade county, Florida provides high quality, comprehensive, primary and preventive medical, and behavioral health care services and education in an environment of caring, respect and dignity. Our goal is to be responsive to the needs of the communities it serves, but with continued emphasis on the under-served and those without access to care, regardless of race, economic status, age, sex, sexual orientation, or disability. Homestead Community Health Center serves patients in the residential and commercial Miami Dade / Homestead area.
151 NW 11th Street. Homestead, FL 33030
