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Why Flu Vaccination
Matters: Personal stories from families affected by flu
Watch personal and heart wrenching stories from families affected by
influenza in this video produced by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) and
Families
Fighting Flu and shown here courtesy of both
organizations. CDC recommends influenza vaccine every year for children 6
months through 18 years.
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6:47 min |
UPenn Fights
Influenza: Baby, Be Wise--Immunize!
Using song and lyrics to raise awareness of the importance of influenza
vaccination for HCWs, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
created this 5-minute video featuring scores of employees lip-synching to
a doo-wop beat.
Watch
the You Tube video
5:36 min |
Coughs and Aerosols
When a healthy volunteer coughs, he expels a turbulent jet of air that is
captured in a specialized
image analysis. Several phases of cough airflow are revealed in this
video. According to an
accompanying New England Journal of Medicine article (October 9, 2008),
"there is an increasing
interest in visualizing such expelled airflows without the use of
intrusive methods because of
concern regarding the transmission of various airborne pathogens, such as viruses that cause
influenza..."Watch the
NEJM video
0:42 min
Read the accompanying NEJM article |
Importance of
Influenza Vaccination for Healthcare Personnel
Courtesy of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Patient Safety
News. The FDA is urging healthcare facilities to ensure that influenza
vaccination programs are available for their personnel. Vaccinating
healthcare workers will decrease the likelihood that they will contract
influenza, and also decrease the chance that they will infect others. This
is especially important because these personnel often provide care to
patients at high risk of serious and even fatal complications if they
contract influenza. Of course another benefit of vaccinating staff is that
it also protects their families from getting the disease.
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2:17 min |
