Keep yourself healthy and get yourself and your children vaccinated this fall!
It’s now October and as the fall weather becomes more prevalent her in the Upper Midwest states, so too will the cool days and cooler nights. A recent study completed by the CS Mott Children’s Hospital poll on children’s health indicates that 65% of parents plan on having their children [5 years or younger] vaccinated this fall against the flu. The numbers are apparently higher for those parents who are planning on getting the vaccination themselves.
It may be a long and cold winter-with plenty of opportunities for us to interact with sick people! Respiratory issues may play an important role for many of us that work in the health care field, especially if you work in the pulmonary or respiratory specialty. Receiving the flu vaccine is a very prudent and intelligent choice to lessen the chance of becoming sick as well as to prevent those around you from becoming sick-when you may infect them.
Do yourself and all those around you a favor. Get yourself and your family members-no matter how small and young or older-vaccinated for the flu this fall!
UMHS Press Release: flu vaccine
http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2007/hmpoll.htm
Tuesday October 2nd, 2007
