 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Flu season has just begun and Pikeville Medical Center has some advice on how to avoid infection and reduce the spread of germs. One of the more effective ways to stay healthy this time of year is to get vaccinated for the flu. The likelihood of spreading infection or becoming infected is increased as many will be traveling and visiting family for the holidays. Really the best way to prepare for flu season is to get your vaccine. Go get your vaccine. It's never too late to get your vaccine. A lot of people think that here we are we're almost at Thanksgiving and flu season is just starting to roll. I think a lot of people don't realize that you can get your flu vaccine anytime during the season. It takes a couple of weeks for your antibodies to kick in so you want to... Thanksgiving is coming up, Christmas is coming up. It's a great time if you haven't already gotten it to go get it and it's also a great time to have remember your children to be vaccinated also because we're all going to be visiting grandma and grandpa and you know those are the people that we really have to worry about our elderly and our immunosuppressed and we want to get our vaccines in order to protect them. Another simple yet effective method to fight the flu is to practice washing your hands. Be sure to use either soap and water or hand sanitizer when available. You know we're out in restaurants and we're in the grocery stores and remember that we're always touching things and just remember that hands are a vehicle a vehicle to to move things to pick things up but they're also a vehicle to pick contaminated things up and then not remembering that you end up contaminating your face and your body in some way so just remember hand-to-hand hygiene is actually other than vaccination the best way to prevent the movement of viruses. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.