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In Collinsville, Ill., a city of about 42,000 that is 23 miles east of St . Louis 20 percent of the staff at Home Instead Senior Care have called in sick, either struck by the flu themselves or at home taking care of a sick child.
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Another report issued Thursday, by the Institute of Medicine, recommended that health care workers treating people with swine flu protect themselves from infection by wearing a type of specially fitted mask called an N95 respirator, which is tighter and better able to seal out viruses than the more common types of surgical masks.
Results from the "diagnostic tool" also highlighted that only in Romania and Kazakhstan do healthcare professionals (HCPs) systematically get invited to receive the flu vaccination themselves.
Today, more than a third of Americans say they would decline a flu shot for themselves or their children.
"We did a telephone survey, and about 50percentt said they were interested in getting the swine flu vaccine for themselves or their child.
Currently less than half of health staff get the flu jab, putting themselves and patients at risk.
In 2011, 8.9% of respondents reported that they or someone in their household had had suspected or confirmed swine flu (4.3% themselves, 4.7% someone else) and 11% reported that they had been prescribed Tamiflu© in the previous 2 years.
As the season of scratchy throats, stuffy noses and achy muscles arrives, those seeking to protect themselves against flu's miseries have a new option.
Its victims - the asthma woman and the elderly man are advised to get a flu jab to protect themselves from ignorant filthy gits who don't even attempt to stifle their public streptococcal ejections.
Most people who don't get the flu take care of themselves.
Yesterday, WHO announced that as part of a global action plan to address the gap, six countries--Brazil, Mexico, India, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia--will get starting grants worth a total of $18 million as well as technical help to acquire flu vaccine manufacturing technology themselves.
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