FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
Influenza (flu)
Why you should vaccinate adults against influenza
- An average of 36,000 Americans die from influenza and its complications each year; most are adults.
- Influenza worsens chronic medical conditions or causes serious complications in people with a variety of chronic illnesses including asthma, diabetes, heart disease and immunosupression.
- As many as one in five Americans gets influenza each year, and more than 200,000 are hospitalized.
- Direct medical costs of a moderately severe seasonal influenza outbreak average more than $10 billion.
