Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommends pneumococcal vaccine given to adults who smoke and those with asthma. Updates and other changes in the vaccination calendar for adults, was published in the January 9
morbidity and mortality weekly report these amendments that apply to people aged 19 to 64, was approved in October 2008, the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. More information is available online (
). Adults over 65 and people with chronic diseases have long been advised to get the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, or PPSV23. Susceptibility to pneumococcal infection smokers became apparent several years ago, when studies showed that about half of healthy adults with invasive pneumococcal disease were smokers. Effect of smoke and was one of the risk factors for disease. Number of cigarettes smoked and number of years a smoker increases the risk, says new editorial guidelines for immunization of January 6
Annals of Internal Medicine. In recent years, adult vaccination schedule attracted the attention of the Association of Health, including the AMA, because doctors urged to use these preventive measures for elderly patients. "Since about one-fifth of the adult U.S. population smoked cigarettes, doctors face considerable difficulties to ensure their protection against invasive pneumococcal infections," said the editorial writers Gregory Poland, MD, founder and director of vaccine research group at Mayo Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and William Schaffner, MD, chairman of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Tennessee. ACIP also reviewed the guidelines on the use of PPSV23 for Alaska and American Indians aged 65 years. Despite the regular use of the vaccine is not recommended for these groups, physicians should now consider vaccine for those 50 years to 64, living in areas where there is an increased risk of contracting the disease. Professional influence does not lead to an increased risk for health workers in human papillomavirus. Employees should receive the HPV vaccine only for the standard of evidence. Previous episode of shingles is not a contraindication to vaccination scab. However, most experts recommend waiting at least 12 months between the occurrence buy strattera of disease and vaccination. Children aged 5 to 18 are encouraged to take annual flu shot, as the departure of high-risk groups for influenza. This information was published only online. .
