“It’s more crucial than ever that as many eligible people as possible get vaccinated against flu, so please ensure that your child’s completed consent form is returned on time if you wish them to receive the vaccine. If you have any questions or concerns about the vaccine, you...
Employees, as well as contractors and dependents, can conveniently redeem flu vaccine vouchers at any of the over 15,000 partnering pharmacies. Online Scheduling No one likes standing in line, and you don’t want employee productivity hampered on the day of your event by long wait times. ...
The hospital uses a consent form to track those who have not received the vaccine. Clark Phinney, and employee health workers' compensation coordinator, and his colleagues work to make the annual flu campa...
Passport Health’s voucher option provides a solution for employees who work remotely or cannot make the onsite event. Employees, as well as contractors and dependents, can conveniently redeem flu vaccine vouchers at any of the over 15,000 partnering pharmacies. ...
All year long, researchers at hospitals around the world collect samples from flu patients and send them to top virology experts with one goal: to design the vaccine for the next flu season. But why do we need a new one every year? Vaccines for diseases like mumps and rubella offer a li...
However, the disease never spread beyond Fort Dix, and the vaccine, which was never explained well to the public, was linked to a paralyzing neuromuscular disorder known as Guillain-Barre syndrome [source: Di Justo]. It's understandable that people who remember the events of 1976 are wary of...
The design of the community influenza vaccination program has evolved, from multiple small scale clinics to mass clinics to meet shortages and delays in vaccine delivery and in preparation for pandemic influenza. Each year we build upon the success of the previous years' experience so as to ...
“All influenza strains have something in common, and if we teach the immune system to fight that commonality it will recognize every flu virus that arrives and be able to deal with it,” Ben-Yedidia explained the rationale behind all attempts to develop a universal vaccine. ...
In terms of the association between influenza vaccination and the area of residence, the results reveal that individuals from a rural area are the least preventive when it comes to using the flu vaccine. One possible explanation for these results is that rural residents have lower access to ...
In terms of reasons for non-compliance, the highest proportion of older persons declined vaccination because "they were in good health" (33.5%) and because "they did not believe that vaccine protects from flu" (31.5%). Independent predictors of being ever immunized against seasonal flu were ...