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Publication #2099
Reference
CMO(2006)14
Name
Routine flu immunisation for poultry workers in 2006-07
Categories
Scottish Government
CMO Letters
Organization
Scottish Executive
Keywords
NHS;SCOTLAND
IMMUNISATION
SAFETY
RISKS
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
PUBLIC HEALTH
BIRD FLU
Description
Poultry workers were added to the target groups for routine flu immunisation as a precautionary public health measure, last year. This was as a result of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommendation that poultry workers should be given seasonal flu vaccination to minimise the theoretical public health risk of avian influenza mixing with seasonal flu and possibly mutating into a pandemic flu strain. As a result of this recommendation, poultry workers were added to the target groups for the free influenza vaccinatioN=n
Contact Name
Anthony Mullen
Contact Address
Public Health,Scottish Executive Health Department, Fax 0131 244 2157
Contact Phone
Created
2006-12-07 00:00:00
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