Actress and Mother Jennifer Garner Kicks Off American Lung Association's Faces of Influenza Awareness Campaign, Encouraging Families to Get Vaccinated Against...(orman Edelman MD ChiefMedical Officer of...),Health

Date:11/12/2007

orman Edelman, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the American Lung Association. "The American Lung Association is pleased that Jennifer Garner has joined us to encourage people to seek influenza immunization for themselves and their families and to encourage vaccination throughout the fall and winter months, and even into the spring to help ensure they are protected."

Garner was joined today by numerous health officials and other Faces of Influenza, including: Bernadette Toomey (American Lung Association's Chief Executive Officer), Norman Edelman, MD (American Lung Association's Chief Medical Officer), actor and father Dean Cain, Anne Schuchat, MD (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Richard and Alissa Kanowitz (who lost their 4-year-old daughter Amanda to influenza), Tyra Bryant-Stephens, MD (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), Luis Rodriguez, MD (Mount Sinai Services, Elmhurst Hospital Center), nurse Lori Diaz (Clinical Nurse Supervisor for the Suffolk County Department of Health in New York), as well as state and local public health officials.

About Influenza

Influenza is a serious respiratory illness that, along with its complications, kills an average of 36,000 Americans and puts approximately 226,000 in the hospital each year. The CDC recommends annual influenza vaccination for anyone wishing to reduce the risk of this disease or spreading it to others. Other target groups include: adults and children with a chronic medical condition, such as asthma, COPD and diabetes, people 50 years of age and older, pregnant women and children 6-59 months of age, residents of nursing homes and other chronic-care facilities, as well as household contacts and caregivers which includes health-care providers, babysitters and others.

Faces of Influenza Awareness Activities

The Faces of Influenza initiative will conduct widespread awareness activities during the influenza season, including national distribution of new television and radio publi
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