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Fight the flu
· Protect yourself, protect others, get a flu vaccine annually.
· Prevent the spread of germs, cover coughs and sneezes.

A yearly flu vaccination is the best tool currently available to protect against influenza (flu). The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends annual vaccinations as the first and most important step in protecting against the flu and its potentially serious complications.  Flu vaccination is also an important preventative tool for those with chronic health conditions.  
  • During flu season, flu shots are offered to area residents at no charge. However, a $10 per person donation is suggested and helps support staffing and other expenses related to the clinics.
  •  Children under 12 and pregnant women cannot receive their flu shots at a flu clinic, and should make appointments to be vaccinated at either the RCMS Gualala health center – 884-4005 – or the Point Arena health center – 882-1704.

Flu Clinic Schedule 
​2017 

​What viruses will the 2017-2018 flu vaccines protect against?
Gualala
Gualala Community Center Pay-n’-Take
47950 Center Street
Saturday, November 4
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Sea Ranch
Del Mar Center
40600 Leeward Road
Tuesday, October 10
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Timber Cove
Ft. Ross School Community Market
30600 Seaview Road
Sunday, October 22 & November 12
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Point Arena
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
40 School Street
Saturday, October 28
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
​There are many different flu viruses and they are constantly changing. The composition of the U.S. flu vaccines is reviewed annually and updated as needed to match circulating flu viruses. Flu vaccines protect against three or four viruses (depending on vaccine) that research suggests will be most common.  For 2017-2018, three component vaccines are recommended to contain:
  • an/A/Michigan/45/2015 (H1N1)pdm09–like virus (updated)
  • an A/Hong Kong/4801/2014 [H3N2]-like virus
  • and a B/Brisbane/60/2008–like (B/Victoria lineage) virus
 
Quadrivalent (four-component) vaccines, which protect against a second lineage of B viruses, are recommended to be produced using the same viruses recommended for the trivalent vaccines, as well as a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like (B/Yamagata lineage) virus.  RCMS will be administering the quadrivalent vaccines for the 2017-2018 flu season.