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Healthy Americans Now Encouraged To Get Immunized.(Brief Article)
2001 DEC 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Healthy persons - those not considered at high risk for influenza complications - are encouraged to seek vaccination, according to new recommendations issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Prior to November 1, 2001, in adherence with CDC guidelines, health care providers prioritized available vaccine for those at high risk for developing severe, potentially life-threatening complications from influenza.
Along with healthy individuals, health care providers are urged to continue to vaccinate high-risk patients - the elderly and those with underlying chronic medical conditions - in November and throughout the 2001-2002 influenza season.
"Now is the time for healthy persons to get vaccinated against influenza and for physicians and other health care providers to begin vaccinating these individuals, while remaining vigilant of high-risk patients who have not yet received influenza vaccine and, accordingly, protection during the upcoming flu season," said William Schaffner, MD, professor and chairman of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. "Vaccination of all persons should continue into December 2001 and even after evidence of local influenza activity."
Healthy individuals, those not considered high risk, had been asked to postpone getting vaccinated until this month, when vaccine supply is more plentiful. Persons at lower risk for complications from influenza who should now be immunized include:
* Healthy persons under age 65
* Household contacts of high-risk persons
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