The Truth About Influenza – What Have You Heard? Parents often look to their children’s health care provider to learn more about influenza and immunization.  This education fact sheet can help providers answer parents’ questions about influenza and can explain the importance of annual influenza for their children with asthma. Practices can provide this educational piece throughout the year to help ensure parents are aware of the benefits of influenza immunization – especially for any child with asthma, regardless of its severity. Click Here to Download the Parent Education Fact Sheet Goals of this NFID program are supported by the Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics; American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology; American Academy of Pediatrics; American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology; American College of Emergency Physicians; American Lung Association; American Medical Association; American Pharmacists Association; American Thoracic Society; Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners; National Association of School Nurses; National Jewish Medical and Research Center; National Medical Association; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and Society for Adolescent Medicine.    NFID’s Influenza and Children with Asthma initiative is made possible by an unrestricted educational grant to NFID from sanofi pasteur.