Vaccine Types
Vaccine Types
What are flu vaccinations and
how can your team benefit from them?
What types of vaccines do we stock?
To ensure you and your team have the best level of protection against the flu this year, we are recommending and making available the following vaccinations:
How effective is the flu vaccine?
Flu vaccinations are approximately 70-80% effective
Whilst no vaccine is 100% effective, vaccinating your workforce is the best defence against flu. An annual flu jab will help protect your team from suffering with flu or passing it onto others in the workplace and at home. Protection is not instant, it usually takes 14 days to develop antibodies against the flu strains vaccinated against and provide protection against influenza virus infection.
Every flu season there are different flu strains that circulate. Flu strains can mutate which is why the composition of flu vaccinations changes every year.
The WHO uses sophisticated systems for monitoring circulating strains of flu around the world, so it is usually possible to predict which strains are most likely to cause trouble, with considerable accuracy.
At flujabs.org, we have consistently supported the use of the Quadrivalent vaccine, on the basis that it significantly increases the probability of good protection.
What’s in the 2022/2023 flu jab?
This year the standard quadrivalent vaccine includes:
- an A/Victoria/2570/2019 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus;
- an A/Darwin/9/2021 (H3N2)-like virus;
- a B/Austria/1359417/2021 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus; and
- a B/Phuket/3073/2013 (B/Yamagata lineage)-like virus.
This year the egg-free quadrivalent vaccine includes:
- an A/Wisconsin/588/2019 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus;
- an A/Darwin/6/2021 (H3N2)-like virus;
- a B/Austria/1359417/2021 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus; and
- a B/Phuket/3073/2013 (B/Yamagata lineage)-like virus.