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Patients Can Join the Fight Against Flu Without Firing a Shot
Because new flu strains emerge every year, scientists constantly develop new vaccines; in a given year, the vaccine is only 50 to 70 percent effective.
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So last week I told one of mine -- a man recovering from robotic laparoscopic prostate surgery -- that nearly 60 percent of health-care workers do not get an annual flu shot. His jaw dropped. "Oh, my gosh," he said.
Then I told him that there might be something he could do about it.
"Ask every hospital worker you encounter -- in a respectful way -- 'Have you had your flu shot?' " I said. "Put them personally on the spot."
Who knows? Maybe that will have an effect.
Manoj Jain is an adjunct assistant professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. Comments: http:/
