October 30, 2009 Q&A: Addressing your H1N1 concerns Play video

(NECN: Latoyia Edwards) - In an effort to continue NECN's focus on H1N1: What You Need to Know, every Friday afternoon will speak with an expert to answer prominent questions surrounding the virus.

To submit a question for this segment, send a question to Flu@necn.com.

In this segment's first installment, Dr. Ronald Walls, chairman of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, answers this round of questions:

• When do they expect the worst breakout to happen -- will it be in November? -- Lisa
• "I have two children under the age of two. What are the risks of the shot? Is it safe?"
• "I have a 2 1/2 year old who needs a nebulizer every time she gets sick. Should she get the H1N1 nasal mist vaccine, or should she wait for the shot?" -- Lisa
• Do you need to have the regular seasonal flu vaccine before you get the H1N1 vaccine? If you do, how long must you receive it prior to the H1N1 vaccine? -- Chuck
• Is it true that once you get this influenza, you are less likely to get it again?
• What risk category am I in, being a multiple organ transplant patient? I am 62 years old and am on several immune suppressant drugs. When I ask my physician (not my transplant doctors), I'm told I don't fall into a high-risk group. -- Robert.

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