Vote & Vax...get a load of this...

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LAKEVILLE, Conn., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Nearly 200 flu shot clinics are

scheduled to take place at or near polling sites in 30 states and

Washington, Wood Foundation officials said.

The clinics are part of an innovative non-partisan, non-political

national public health strategy called Vote & Vax, sponsored by the

Wood Foundation and Sickness Prevention Achieved through

Regional Collaboration, also known as SPARC.

A 2008 national survey commissioned by SPARC indicates 46 percent of

U.S. adults age 50 would be more likely to get a flu shot if it were

more convenient.

" Vote & Vax is a common sense strategy for ensuring that the people who

can benefit most from flu shots get them when they need them, " Jane

Isaacs Lowe, senior program officer at Wood Foundation,

said in a statement.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends all adults age

50 and older get an annual influenza vaccination; however, for the

2006-07 flu season, about 36 percent of people age 50 to 64 got a flu

short and less than two-thirds of those age 65 and older received an

influenza vaccination, the CDC said.

More information about Vote & Vax, including information on clinic

locations is available at the Web site voteandvax.org.

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