If you have a cough, runny nose, fever and body aches you aren't the only one.
Area hospitals and urgent care centers are seeing a rise in flu cases. St. Mary's Medical Center Ironton campus Doctor Sean Stiltner says there have been several people coming in with the flu and flu like symptoms.
Tips to help prevent you from getting the flu include washing your hands, especially after being out in public, and to try and maintain your health, but the best defense is getting a flu shot, and it's not too late to get one.
Sean Stiltner, D.O., says,
"When you get the vaccination it's a dead virus. The body then recognizes that virus and will build up immunity to that. That's why the flu vaccination works. So when you build up the immunity that way, when the live virus attacks then the body has resistance against it."
About sixty to seventy percent respond well to the vaccine. Call your local health department to see when flu shots are available.
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