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CDC reports not enough seniors getting flu shots.(U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention )(Brief Article)
2002 DEC 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fewer than two-thirds of the nation's senior citizens are getting vaccinated against flu and pneumonia - well short of the government's goal of 90% by 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports.
In a 2001 survey of nearly 40,000 elderly people by the CDC, only about 65% said they had received a flu shot in the preceding year, and only 60% had ever received a shot against the most common form of bacterial pneumonia.
The figures show the government is making progress on the pneumococcal shots - the 2001 figure is up nearly 6 percentage points from 1999. But apparently because of delays in delivery of last year's flu vaccine, the flu vaccination rate for senior citizens dropped from 67% in 1999.
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