Influenza Vaccination Information for Health Care Workers

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Influenza Division.
• Description:
  CDC, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) recommend that all U.S. health care workers get vaccinated annually against influenza.
  
  Health care workers include (but are not limited to) physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, therapists, technicians, emergency medical service personnel, dental personnel, pharmacists, laboratory personnel, autopsy personnel, students and trainees, contractual staff not employed by the health-care facility, and persons (e.g., clerical, dietary, housekeeping, laundry, security, maintenance, administrative, billing, and volunteers) not directly involved in patient care but potentially exposed to infectious agents that can be transmitted to and from health care workers and patients.
  
  Last reviewed: August 25, 2016
  
  Last updated: November 1, 2016
  
  flu-vaccination-health-care-workers.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Influenza, Human/prevention & Control Influenza Vaccines Vaccination
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Pages in Document:
  5 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:599b5123359fbc66eaef21a2ec2d1aee22b3ebabad23600a728b4ec4a554b2c0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/148151/cdc_148151_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 345.31 KB ]