Community | September 21, 2009 | 3 comments

Many Health Workers Won't Take Swine Flu Vaccine

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Surveys and focus groups show that health care workers, as well as members of the general public, may avoid getting swine flu shots when supplies become available this fall.
In May of this year researchers distributed 810 questionnaires to public hospital workers. Less than half of the nearly 400 workers who returned the questionnaires intended to accept pre-pandemic H1N1 vaccination.

In a separate article, very few of 85 focus group participants in British Columbia said they would be willing to be vaccinated in the event of a pandemic, and very few people said they or their children would definitely get vaccinated.

The most common reason for refusal was potential side effects, followed by questions about the vaccine's efficacy.



This video originally aired August 12, 2009, featuring CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton and NVIC's Barbara Loe Fisher. Here they discuss the possible dangers of the swine flu versus the H1N1 vaccine. Both provide sensible information and guidelines on this issue. I can’t stress enough how important it is for this type of information to make it into the conventional media.

Interestingly the swine flu vaccines are going to be available in the U.S. around the time the finest vaccine conference in the world will be held. If you want to learn the absolute latest and best strategies for swine flu, then Washington DC is the place to be October 2-4. I will be sharing my strategies live at the event.

So join me at the International Vaccine Conference in Reston, Virginia (Near Washington, D.C.). It is the best vaccine conference in the world, and is only held about once every five years.

It is relatively inexpensive to attend, and highly recommended. But you’ll need to hurry to reserve your seat, as there is only room for 1,000 and the seats are going quickly.

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