The fall season may just be getting underway, but before you know it the flu season is going to be here. That’s why the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention are recommending people get their flu shots now.

As always, people over the age of 65, with chronic medical conditions, who are pregnant or who work in the health care industry are advised to get flu vaccines.

This year the CDC is also recommending a new group of people get them too.

“The main expansion has been in children,” said Ruth Marx, and epidemiologist with the Marathon County Health Department. “Last year it was recommended that children age six months to five years of age get a flu vaccine. This year children ages six months to 18 [years] are recommended to get the flu vaccine."

About 36,000 people die each year in the United States from complications resulting from the flu.