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Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Personnel Remain Well Below National Goal

Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 12th, 2008

In response to recent data revealing that only 42 percent of health care personnel have received their annual influenza vaccination, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) has published two new reports: a Call to Action urging health care personnel to receive annual influenza vaccines and a Best Practices report illustrating innovative programs for increasing immunization rates.

These reports are part of a major initiative led by NFID to address the critical need to improve influenza vaccination rates among health care personnel. Despite many public health organizations' recommendations that health care personnel be vaccinated, the Centers for Disease...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-03-12)

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