But during the 2011-2012 flu season, only 47% opted to get vaccinated, according to the CDC.
Health care workers in contact with patients should also make sure to get vaccinated against whooping cough.
The move has been welcomed Community Pharmacy Wales who say it will encourage more people to get vaccinated.
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He was also on the national committee that made the decision to encourage everyone to get vaccinated.
Residents looking to get vaccinated should contact their primary care physician or local pharmacy, the website said.
They should wait until they recover to get vaccinated, so their bodies can optimally manufacture antibody to the vaccine.
The Chief Medical Officer Dr Ruth Hussey said she wanted to encourage as many people as possible in high risk groups to get vaccinated.
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Health officials are urging children aged 10 to 16 in Devon and Cornwall to get vaccinated against measles in time for the next school year.
They push people to get vaccinated before they catch the flu, and individuals with health issues who might be more vulnerable can take extra precautions.
And the severity of the flu this year can be expected to prompt still more people to get vaccinated, including those who may not have done so in past flu seasons.
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The DoH has therefore launched a campaign to encourage at-risk groups to get vaccinated and a new website, called Winterwatch, will be launched later this month to provide winter-related health data.
"We are starting to see parents bringing unprotected children to get vaccinated, showing that they're taking the outbreak seriously and have confidence in the jab as the best way of protecting their children, " she said.
There may be another economic reason for more Americans to get vaccinated -- one in three U.S. workers get no paid time off when they are sick, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Health officials are hoping people with pre-existing disease and young people will be among the first to get vaccinated because -- even considering the new data -- they tend to be more vulnerable to H1N1 than are older people.
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Professor Derrick Pounder, an expert in forensic medicine at the University of Dundee, said people travelling to regions where rabies was a problem had to weigh up whether it was sensible to get vaccinated before setting off on their travels.
They looked at studies comparing people who decided to get vaccinated to those who didn't, and figured that fewer of the vaccinated people died because they were healthier in the first place, healthy enough to go out and get a vaccine.
She said she was now extremely concerned and urged dog owners to get their pets vaccinated.
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The Department of Health (DoH) which provided the statistics advised parents to get their children vaccinated.
Parents have been urged to use the Easter holidays to get their children vaccinated.
Parents across Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend are being urged to get their children vaccinated with GPs.
"This enthusiasm to get more people vaccinated gets in the way of a critical look at the science, " Osterholm said.
Chief among these is the increased scope of Bolsa Familia, a programme of cash transfers that benefits 11m poor families, rewarding them if their children go to school and get vaccinated.
"We're hoping we're on track to be ahead of this virus, to get the college-age population vaccinated once it becomes available in mid-October, and to keep students as safe and secure as possible, " Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters in a conference call.
He warned that other European countries would block attempts to get a cattle vaccine and the Diva test to identify vaccinated animals approved for use.
Many families receive the bolsa familia, a benefit paid on the condition that their children get vaccinated and sent to school.
Because the disease kills the young as well as the old, parents have good reason to get both themselves and their children vaccinated.
Typically, about 70-90 percent of adults who get vaccinated will develop complete immunity to the chicken pox virus.
And I encourage everyone else to get your flu shot, get your kids vaccinated, and then go see a movie at an AMC theater.
They said not only are teenagers of mothers not engaging with screening less likely to be vaccinated they are also less likely to engage with screening themselves when they get older, putting them at risk.
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