TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) - It's time for another WTXL Questions Center, and this time officials from the Florida Department of Health are in to answer any questions regarding flu season. The number to call is 850-580-8678 from 5pm to 6:30pm.
Georgia saw its first case of flu this season in mid-September.
According to officials at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, Florida has already seen three types of the flu this season: H1N1, H3N2, and Type B — some of which cases have been in Tallahassee.
Flu vaccines can be obtained at Primary Care offices, Walgreens, CVS, TMH, among other health care centers and businesses with pharmacies.
Heading into and throughout flu season, TMH officials urge people to wash hands, cover coughs, and stay home if they are feeling sick.
To help prepare for the flu season, staff at TMH has been immunized, an official told WTXL. Signs are placed around the hospital reminding guests and visitors to wash their hands. If patients come in with flu-like symptoms, they are immediately masked and flu swabs are taken.
During WTXL ABC 27's Questions Center tonight, experts will be in to answer all questions pertaining to the flu, flu season and fall allergies. All experts are from the Florida Department of Health and include: Dearline Thomas-Brown, Executive Community Health Nursing Director; Claudia Blackburn, health officer of the Leon County Health Department; Dr. Russell Eggert, chief of the Bureau of Epidemiology; and Valerie Shipley, nurse and community health nursing consultant of the Bureau of Communicable.
