Will the flu vaccine protect me this year?

By Paul Logothetis

Media Relations Advisor, uOttawa

Man holding nose during sneeze
Towfiqu Barbhuiya (Unsplash)
Flu cases are rising in Canada with medical experts bracing for a difficult influenza season. The global spread of the H3N2 strain in addition to the H1N1 strain – may affect this year’s flu vaccine’s efficacy.

Members of the media may directly contact:

Giorgia Sulis (English only)

Assistant Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, and Canada Research Chair in Communicable Disease Epidemiology.

[email protected] (not available for live radio/TV interviews)

Dr. Sulis' expertise includes infectious disease epidemiology, population health and vaccines.

Earl Brown (English only)

Emeritus Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine.

[email protected]

Dr. Brown's expertise relates to virology, infectious diseases, respiratory viruses, RNA viruses, microbiology.

Hugues Loemba(French only)

Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and Clinician-researcher, family doctor and virologist at Institut Savoir Montfort.

[email protected]

Dr. Loemba is a clinician-researcher, family doctor and virologist who can discuss public-health related themes around the current flu season.