Wellness Wednesday – Physical Wellbeing Tip: Get your influenza vaccine this week during National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW), December 2-6, 2024. NIVW is an annual observance in December to remind everyone 6 months and older that there’s still time to get vaccinated against influenza to be protected during the 2024-2025 season. Get an influenza vaccine to protect yourself, your loved ones, and the pigs you care for this flu season.
AASV recommends that people working with swine take all available precautions, including vaccination (with their human health professional’s approval), biosecurity, and personal protection measures to work towards the prevention of bidirectional influenza transmission between humans and pigs.
Learn more about influenza in swine, including the risk of H5N1 to swine, at https://www.aasv.org/swine-diseases/influenza/.