Flu Shot May Become Mandatory for Healthcare Workers

(they are not going away . . . even when the flu shot has been declared dangerous to humans in many countries, they can't wait to watch us line up for their loving injection . . . )

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Flu Shot a Must for All Healthcare Workers, AAP Says

By TODD NEALE, MedPage Today Staff Writer

Sept. 11, 2010

All healthcare personnel should be required to get vaccinated against influenza, according to a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The authors, from the AAP's Committee on Infectious Diseases, said that influenza vaccination is needed to protect patients, and that healthcare personnel have an ethical and professional obligation to be immunized.

"Mandatory influenza immunization for all healthcare personnel is ethically justified, necessary, and long overdue to ensure patient safety," the authors wrote online ahead of the October print issue of Pediatrics.

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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which provides the CDC with guidance, has been recommending influenza vaccination for healthcare personnel since the early 1980s, and earlier this year recommended universal immunization of everybody older than 6 months.

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