Miles Pharmacy Blog

There are two key drivers for vaccination, one is protection against disease in the UK and the other is the imperatives of travel.  Vaccination programmes have been so successful in the UK that people are not properly aware of what some of these illnesses can be like.  Perhaps Covid-19 has reminded everyone that we need to protect our health at all times.

The first of these is a new and continuous cough – this could mean three or four coughing episodes over 24 hours when you wouldn’t normally cough at all or, coughing for more than an hour.