The VICNetwork is calling on all public health professionals and communication specialists to spread the word about National Influenza Vaccination Week.   We encourage you to share news and information about influenza and vaccination through your organization’s and/ or your personal Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites so we can maximize this national effort designed to remind family, friends, co-workers and the media about the importance of preventing the flu.  Protect yourself, your loved ones and your community; get vaxed yourself and tell the world all about it in pictures or prose on your favorite social networking site! 

Resources can be found at, www.cdc.gov/flu/nivw and at www.cdc.gov/flu among many others.

If you are active on Twitter – use #NIVW hashtag and follow @CDCFlu, @FluGov, @GetReady, and of course @VICNetwork for retweetable tweets and links to news stories and resources!

If you are on Facebook – support the effort by commenting on www.facebook.com/CDC and blogs like http://shotofprevention.com/.

More to come and thank you for spreading the word!