Nursing staff from the Fall River Department of Health and Human Services made it easy for seniors at two of the Council on Aging senior centers to get their an annual flu shot on October 30, 2008, when they brought vaccinations to the North End Senior Center and the Flint Senior Centers. Public Health Nurse Supervisor Linda Francoeur and Margaret Canulla and Geri Anger brought the traveling clinic to both sites to make sure that a large percentage of senior get their shots early in the flu season. Recent studies suggest that flu vaccinations for senior citizens sharply reduce their risk of hospitalization and even death from flu and pneumonia. The Health and Human Service team will be going on the road again in November to dispense flu vaccinations, including a public vaccination clinic at B.M.C. Durfee High School. For more information about flu vaccinations available through the City, call the Health Department at 508-324-2420.

(Top row) Ninety-two-year-old Jennie Kirker gets her flu vaccination from Linda Francoeur, R.N. (Middle row, right) Volunteers Margie Bowers, Ann Miraglia and Margaret Furtado signs-in Sadie Toole for her vaccination as Arthur Oliver looks on. (Bottom row, left) Geri Anger, R.N. and Margaret Canulla, R.N. put away the records that they carry to the site. (Bottom row, center) Margaret, Linda and Geri pause for a minute in their busy morning. (Bottom row, right) Linda packs away her equipment in a portable case en route to another clinic.