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General practitioners are at the forefront of the annual influenza vaccination, but they are not the only health workers with responsibility for vaccination. The aims of vaccination are to both protect the induvidual, and the wider community via herd immunity. In addition to vaccination, we now have antiviral drugs to treat those who did not take the vaccine, although these drugs must be given in a short window after the onset of symptoms.