Facts About Seasonal Workplace Flu Vaccinations

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Facts About Seasonal Workplace Flu Vaccinations
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• Influenza is a very serious disease in many cases
  it can lead to hospitalization and its
  complications can sometimes result in death. Each
  year the very virus mutates so each flu season is
  different. Just as everyone is different the
  influenza infection can affect people
  differently. Each year, millions of people get
  the flu, which results in hundreds of thousands
  of people being hospitalized. Even healthy people
  who rarely get sick can get very sick from the
  flu and spread it to others. During flu season,
  new flu viruses circulate at in Australia higher
  levels throughout the population.

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• An annual seasonal Workplace flu vaccine on The
  Gold Coast is the best way to reduce your risk of
  getting sick and spreading it to others. When you
  get your annual flu vaccination, it means you are
  not spreading the flu virus and with more being
  vaccinate it stops the spread in the workplace
  and community.
• Consider these facts on seasonal workplace flu
  vaccinations

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• How do these flu vaccines work?
• After about two weeks of being vaccinated the flu
  vaccine causes antibodies to develop in your
  body, these antibodies help to provide you with
  protection against the viruses in the vaccine

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• Flu vaccination for seasonal workers?
• Seasonal workers usually move from one workplace
  to another, so are more likely to be exposed to
  the influenza virus than other people and are
  also more likely to spread it around.

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• Protecting Others
• Having your seasonal flu vaccination is an
  important preventive tool for seasonal workers
  and especially those with chronic health
  conditions, it not only protects you and your
  family but protects the people around you.

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• WHO
• The World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated
  that a deadly strain of influenza called the
  Brisbane Strain because it originated in the
  Queensland capital, is one of the most deadly in
  the world so people whose workplace is seasonal
  are urged to get flu vaccinations on The Gold
  Coast early to avoid this influenza virus

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• Last year over 1100 people died from
  complications from this influenza bug. So far,
  as of April 12th this year just in Queensland,
  more than 3200 people it has been reported, have
  been diagnosed with influenza

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• The Brisbane strain of influenza is at least ten
  years old, but because it keeps evolving, as is
  normal for influenza, to keep up with the body
  and our immune systems ability to combat it, so
  this vaccine needs to be reevaluated and updated
  every six months.

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• The decision on which strains of the flu virus
  should be included in vaccines is based on the
  latest strains that are in circulation at the
  time and the most dangerous to public health.
  Local governments are setting millions of dollars
  for state hospitals and local area health boards
  to combat this years flu. You can get your own
  and families, workplace flu vaccinations on the
  Gold Coast by visiting your local public hospital
  or doctors rooms.

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