An editorial published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: Health care workers must protect patients from influenza by taking the annual vaccine. Excerpt:
We know that health care workers import and transmit seasonal influenza to patients. We know that many patients get seriously ill from it and that some die. We know that the annual influenza vaccine can interrupt most of this imposed disease burden. It is time that we act on our knowledge and require all health care workers to be vaccinated.
