Does ANA promote getting the seasonal influenza and H1N1 vaccines?
ANA considers vaccines a critical public health measure to decrease the burden of vaccine-preventable disease on individuals and the community. Vaccines not only protect the individual, but enable herd immunity — the resistance of a group to attack by a disease to which a large proportion of the members are immune. Vaccines also help protect those that cannot be vaccinated or whose immune systems are suppressed, such as infants and cancer patients.
