The AAFP and nearly a dozen other organizations are urging health care professionals to immunize their pregnant and postpartum patients against influenza. Influenza is five times more likely to cause severe illness in pregnant women than in women who are not pregnant because of changes to the heart, lungs and immune system during pregnancy. That's according to a Dec. 5 letter signed by the AAFP; AMA; American Academy of Pediatrics; American College of Nurse-Midwives; American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; American Nurses Association; American Pharmacists Association; and Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.
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AAFP, Others Urge That Pregnant, Postpartum Women Be Immunized Against Flu
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