flu vaccine
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffluandvaccine
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flu
noun[U]
uk/fluː/us/fluː/
a common infectious illness that causes fever ...
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vaccine
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈvæk.siːn/us/vækˈsiːn/
a substance that is put into the body of a person or animal to protect them from a disease by causing them to produce antibodies (=proteins that ...
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(Definition offluandvaccinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The number of people receivingfluvaccinesince 2000 are shown in the table.
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This year there are five suppliers offluvaccine.
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No strategic health authority has reported a shortage offluvaccine.
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We have heard much about thefluvaccine.
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We will ensure that those who need thefluvaccinereceive it on the national health service.
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Together, these new structures should provide a series of routes by which we should be able to increase the uptake offluvaccinein recommended groups.
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Guidance has been issued on the immunisation of health and social care staffs who are recommended to receivefluvaccine.
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Fluvaccinecan never eradicate flu but it can help to provide further protection for vulnerable groups.
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Fluvaccinecan never eradicate flu, but it can help to provide further protection for vulnerable groups.
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However, many are still falling through the safety net of adequate preventive provision by way of a simplefluvaccine.
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Before last year, reliable national estimates offluvaccineuptake in our targeted groups were not available.
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However, we do now have estimates offluvaccineuptake on a national level, and the equivalent data at a local level should be a matter for local planning.
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We will not know exactly who received thefluvaccineuntil later in the year, but over 8 million doses were made available by manufacturers.
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I pointed out that the other surgery had said that there was a national shortage offluvaccine, and asked whether that was the case.
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As he knows,fluvaccinehas been made available for the very first time to people 65 and over.
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General practitioners order their supply offluvaccinedirect from manufacturers.
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They were told that nofluvaccinewas available and that if they wished they could put down their names for next year.
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Already we have extended the annual immunisation programme for influenza to ensure that everyone aged 75 and over can have thefluvaccinefree of charge.
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This winter, for the first time, we are makingfluvaccineavailable free to everyone over 75, as well as to the usual at-risk groups and key workers.
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I accept that much of the framework for monitoring, targeting and co-ordinating thefluvaccineis historic: we have inherited it.
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