Few articles in the English papers said that if you're taking statins the flu vaccine doesn't necessarily work reliably.

The doc tells me not to have it if my body's currently fighting an infection, so I'll often end up getting it shortly after a run of antibiotics, since my sinuses are the Passchendale of sinus infections.

There's a vaccine for pneumonia now too; lasts lots of years, and apparently protects against something like 1/3 of pneumonia infections. Here in Ireland they're recommending it when you're auld and grey and full of fleas.