The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that all health care professionals should take flu vaccine in order to reduce the risk of spread of infection.

When employers at Horizons Healthcare Services in Lancaster asked their employees to take a flu shot, Dreonna Breton, 29, nurse at the hospital, refused for the same.

The pregnant nurse has told her employers that she is a healthy person and does not come in the 1% population that can get the infection. Moreover, there are very few studies that have talked about the effects of the vaccine on pregnant women.

She has even submitted letters from her obstetrician and primary care doctor who supported her decision. But the employers did not buy her words and she was told that she would be fired on December 17.

Horizons Healthcare Services spokesman Alan Peterson was of the view that the pregnant women are more vulnerable to flu. "I know that the CDC says to get it, and that's fine, but it was our choice to avoid the flu vaccine and the unknowns that come with that", said Breton. She said that she has even offered to wear a face mask during her practice time.