Vaccinations urged for a safer flu season

As we transition to fall, medical providers are urging families to get their children immunized against the flu, a highly contagious respiratory illness, in hopes to reverse last year’s rise in flu cases and deaths. Dr. Pilar Bradshaw of Eugene Pediatric Associates says the 2024-25 trivalent flu vaccine is designed to target the three dominating influenza strains from last winter—which proved to be the deadliest flu season for children in the past five years.