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Overall, you can decrease peer infection by 88% and reduce patient mortality by 50%.
Protect yourself and those you care for.
Get the flu vaccine!
Pregnant women are
hospitalised more than other
women during flu season.
Children are 2 to 3
times more likely
to get the flu.
Studies show that patients are
more likely to get the flu shot if
their physicians are immunised.
59% of those caring
for infected patients
get the flu.
The flu is responsible for
3 to 5 million cases of severe
illness every year.
When you
vaccinate
When you do
not vaccinate
I am vaccinated against the flu. Are you?
As healthcare professionals, our patients expect
the very best from us; they trust us to do everything
we can to protect them. But if we’re not immunised
against influenza, the sick, elderly, children and
pregnant women we care for are at risk of catching
this potentially deadly, but preventable disease,
directly from us. Hence, it’s critically important that
we protect our patients against influenza through
our own pre-exposure immunisation.
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