Ever since operating room nurse Pauline Taylor got sick after getting a shot a few years ago, she's sworn off the vaccine. "I rarely get sick. The only thing I could narrow it down to is that I had gotten this shot," said Taylor.
In fact, nearly 60 percent of health care workers fail to get a flu shot, despite recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that all health care workers get vaccinated. However, there are still very few well documented cases of flu outbreaks caused by health care workers.
Health care workers opt not to get vaccinated for the same reasons others are hesitant, including a fear of catching the flu from the vaccine itself.