In this week’s Keeping Kids Healthy column by UTMB’s Dr. Sally Robinson: Protect your family against the flu with vaccination. The 2013 flu vaccine protects against the most likely strains to be spread this winter. The flu vaccine is recommended for all children 6 months of age and older. A nasal spray version of the vaccine is available for healthy older children and adults. You can’t get the flu from the flu vaccine. It can give you a sore shoulder, body aches and a slight fever — but not the flu. The more of us that are protected, the fewer people there are to give you the flu.