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Pork Board Recommends Flu Shots for Workers
October 13, 2005 — Liz Wagstrom
The National Pork Board is recommending that farm workers get a flu shot to prevent the transmission of the influenza virus from people to pigs.
Dr. Liz Wagstrom, assistant vice president of science and technology for the Pork Checkoff, said in a Pork Checkoff press release, "Producers and swine farm workers can reduce the risk of bringing the flu to the farm and infecting the pigs they care for by getting a flu shot." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has indicated that healthy adults should be able to begin receiving vaccinations on October 24th. Priority groups, including people over 65 years of age, children younger than 23 months of age, pregnant women and people suffering of a chronic illness or caring for infants can get the flu shot or an alternative vaccine before this date.
Sources:
National Pork Board http://www.porkboard.org/News/NewsEdit.asp?NewsID=503
Influenza Fact Sheet http://www.porkscience.org/documents/Other/PUBLICHEALTH%20influenza.pdf
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