The UF Student Health Care Center will begin offering flu shots to students and faculty during the next two weeks.
The center will start offering the inoculation to all students and staff on Oct. 20, according to the SHCC Web site. Shots will be $5 for students and $25 for faculty and staff.
The vaccine is in limited supply at SHCC.
It ordered about 5,800 shots for itself, the University Athletic Association and Santa Fe College's clinic, Cullen said.
Each year's flu injection is made of dead material collected from the three most prevalent strains of influenza from the previous year.
The strains are chosen based on data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization.
Though a rare occurrence, the vaccine sometimes fails to match the strain of influenza that becomes prominent during the flu season, which happened last year, Cullen said.
When the vaccine wasn't in sync with the flu strain last year, people became ill.
In addition to students and school faculty, the SHCC is urging its health care staff members to get immunized, Cullen said.
The national average of health care workers who are inoculated against the flu is 42 percent, which Cullen said "is really pitiful."
Jennifer Jenkins, a UF journalism junior, said she is afraid of needles, but she has other reasons for avoiding flu shots.
"The one time I got one, I got pretty sick," she said.
