Candidates for Influenza Vaccination
| High risk |
| All persons over 65 years old |
| All persons in long-term care facilities |
| All persons over 6 months old with chronic illness |
| Disorders of pulmonary or cardiovascular systems (eg, asthma) |
| Chronic metabolic diseases (eg, diabetes mellitus) |
| Renal dysfunction |
| Hemoglobinopathies |
| Immunosuppression (eg, HIV) |
| Children 6 months to 18 years old on long-term aspirin therapy |
| Healthy children 6 to 23 months old |
| Household contacts of children under 2 years old |
| Women who will be in their second or third trimester during influenza season |
| Health care workers |
| Household contacts of other high-risk persons |
| Other |
| Anyone without contraindications wishing to decrease their probability of infection |
| Vaccine contraindications |
| Severe allergy to any vaccine component |
| Allergy to egg |
| Allergy to thimerosal |
| Allergic reaction to prior vaccine administration |
| Moderate to severe acute illness |