The CDC Wants More Kansas Farm Workers to Get Their Flu Shots This Season

KCUR, NPR

Nov 14, 2024

Highlights an initiative to increase vaccination for influenza among Kansas farmworkers. Discusses the increased risk of co-infection with H5N1 bird flu and seasonal influenza as well as the strain seasonal illnesses can place on low-staffed rural hospitals.

Agricultural health and safety · Farmers and farmworkers · Hospitals · Infectious diseases · Vaccination · Kansas