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Health professionals can spread disease.
Dear Colleagues, If you're like most people who work in medicine, your patients' well-being is of primary concern to you. Yet every year more than 200,000 MDs and RNs needlessly expose their patients to the influenza virus. This means that over 2.3 million MDs and RNs are unvaccinated and at risk not only for contracting influenza but also for passing it on to others. Some of these cases are unwittingly passed from health professionals to their patients. I don't get sick and I never get influenza.