Even if winter is in its last days, this doesn’t mean you should avoid taking the vaccine against influenza. Actually, maybe finding out about six children who have died of this “simple” disease might convince you to go to the doctors. The children were from the states of New York, Boston and Colorado and their deaths surely pointed out the importance of getting the flu vaccine every year.

Dr. Marc Siegel, a FOX News contributor and author of the book, “Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic,” stated that the effects of the flu shots happen in almost three weeks and given the length of this winter period, three weeks isn’t bad. He added that this flu season will continue until late March and maybe even April and whoever has asthma or a weakened immune system should be vaccinated.

Siegel also advised pregnant women as well as very young children and very old people to be vaccinated against the dangerous disease.

Hunter Pope was a student in the seventh grade at Boston Latin Academy. He had died over the weekend because he hadn’t been vaccinated against the flu. According to this mother, the boy had lost his permission slip. Each year, influenza or flu might become an important deadly illness that kills almost 30,000 Americans.

The elderly and the children are the ones who are at the biggest risk of catching the terrible disease. Last year, statistics showed that more than 80 children died from flu. Siegel stated that the influenza is a disease that generally spreads in schools. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already begun recommending that the children aged 18 and younger must be vaccinated.

As Siegel also said, the flu vaccination really is a good match against the flu strains that are circulating this period of the year.