Influenza

NFID encourages Americans to follow CDC flu vaccination schedule

Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 9th, 2002

As influenza vaccination recommendations issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) go into effect, and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) has issued an alert to all Americans to ensure priority vaccination for those groups at highest risk of contracting influenza.

"CDC issued these recommendations to help ensure those at highest risk of influenza infection are the first in line for the vaccine in October, and to advise healthy persons to postpone vaccination until November," said William Schaffner, MD, professor and chairman of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville,...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2002-10-09)

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