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Leading Health and Labor Organizations Call For Improved Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Workers; National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Joins Supporters to Issue Call to Action for Institutions to Increase Dismally Low Immunization Rates Among Health Care Workers.

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BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the nation's immunization advisory committee received a call to action from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) for a comprehensive, concerted effort by health care institutions, employers, insurers and allied professional organizations to improve health care worker influenza immunization rates. Twenty-four of the nation's leading professional health and labor organizations support a newly issued NFID report, stressing this is an important goal for improved public health and safety.

Kristin Nichol, MD, chair of NFID's National Coalition for Adult Immunization Advisory Committee, presented the call to action at today's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and…

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