Health Care Professionals and Influenza

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One of health care professionals' greatest responsibilities is making sure their patients receive their recommended vaccinations, including an annual influenza vaccination.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends health care professionals use every opportunity to vaccinate against influenza, such as during well, follow-up or acute care visits, to begin immunizing as soon as vaccine becomes available and to continue to vaccinate throughout the influenza season.

Additionally, the CDC recommends that all health care professionals receive annual influenza vaccination to help prevent transmitting the influenza virus to vulnerable patients. Yet, despite CDC recommendations, only 40 percent of health care professionals receive an annual influenza vaccination.

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Talk Flu To Me is made possible through an unrestricted educational grant to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases from GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis Vaccines and sanofi pasteur.