Sentences with phrase «older than the vaccine»

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One good way is to make sure that all adults who will have contact with infants less than 12 months old, including parents, grandparents (even if they are over 65 years old), child - care providers, and health care workers, get a Tdap vaccine if they have not had one yet, even if it has been less than 10 years since their last tetanus booster.

Given questions about how long the vaccine is effective for, she questioned the efficacy of giving shots to girls as young as 11 years old in parts of the world (such as the U.S.) where women regularly undergo safety Pap screening repeatedly over their lifetimes, saying that the chances of their contracting cervical cancer may be less than the «small» risks associated with the vaccine.

This is especially important for children younger than 6 months old since they are too young to receive influenza vaccine themselves.

The vaccine is especially important for children less than 5 years of age, and for older children with chronic conditions who are at high risk of complications from the flu.

And children older than 2 can receive the nasal spray form of the vaccine, which does not contain thimerosal either.

A flu vaccine is available, but it is only approved for babies older than 6 months.

But, yeah, if your teenager, you know, comes home on the back of the motor cycle with her first tattoo with her, you know, boyfriend, you know, 5 years older than she is, yeah, you know, that's the, sorry to stereotype this, I mean, that's the time, start talking about HPV vaccine, make sure Hepatitis B vaccine, you know, it's already been administered.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

Seniors, ages 65 and older, support a school - based requirement for the MMR vaccine rather than leaving the decision up to parents by a margin of 90 % to 8 %.

Scientists say the vaccine could help to finally bring an end to the epidemic in West Africa, now more than 18 months old.

The newer formulation of the vaccine, introduced 20 years ago, is simply less effective than its older counterpart at conferring prolonged immunity.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

[5] Of the remainder, only three were serious adverse events, none of which were judged by the investigators to be unexpected or related to therapy: all occurred in the low - rather than the high - dose vaccine group, and all were lower back or knee pains common in older adults.

If you're older than 26 and considering the vaccine, it makes sense to evaluate your sexual history.

(Exceptions: If you have a chronic illness, are pregnant, or have a baby less than six months old, ask your doc about the swine flu vaccine.)

Dr. Alethea Fleming, ND The New Shingles Vaccine is much better than the old; Wait to get this one Shingles is a painful viral rash that can affect anyone who has ever had chicken pox.

In order to protect the inner market (and maybe even breeders) the US Government suggested making an amendment to the Farm Bill of 2008 that forbids importing puppies less than 6 months old for the purpose of sale and - drum beat - all non-US breeders must present a certificate stating that the dog has no health issues and has all of the necessary vaccines!

To get around the age limit, the vaccine book date of birth is dated as older than the actual age and the vaccines are «given».

An annual rabies vaccine is used for cats because it has been proven safer than the older three - year vaccine.

While these are great intentions, all that extra vaccination does is weaken the puppy's immune system (yes, it's backwards), predispose to cancer and other illnesses later, and leave the puppy unprotected for a period of time until the final vaccine at older than 17 weeks occurs.

Other than for puppy socialization classes and visiting our animal hospital, keep your puppy only on your property until after his / her final Distemper - Parvo vaccine, which is usually at about four months old.

p. 12 «Because dogs older than 14 - 16 wk of age are not likely to have interfering levels of MDA [maternally derived antibodies], administration of a single initial dose of an infectious vaccine to an adult dog can be expected to induce a protective immune response.

For cats older than 16 weeks of age, two doses of vaccine given 3 - 4 weeks apart are recommended.

As veterinary medicine has advanced over the years, your cat's yearly exam (or more often than yearly in older cats) has become more and more about the physical exam and less about just vaccines.

The first vaccine is ideally given between 6 and 8 weeks of age, with boosters given at 3 - week intervals until the puppy is at least 4 months old (the series is not complete for ages younger than this).

The AAHA no longer recommends the Coronavirus vaccine as it is «a mild or sub-clinical disease, generally occurs in puppies less than 6 weeks old and is typically self - limiting.»

«Our new [vet school] grads don't know a heck of a lot more about vaccines than our older grads.

For dogs older than 16 weeks of age, two doses of vaccine containing modified live virus (MLV) CPV, CDV, and CAV - 2 given 3 - 4 weeks apart are recommended.

For cats older than 16 weeks of age, two doses of vaccine containing modified live virus (MLV) FHV1, FCV, and FPV given 3 - 4 weeks apart are recommended.

You might already be talking with your veterinarian about vaccines each year in a dog that is older than 7 years of age; next, talk to your veterinarian about doing an annual exam and routine blood work too.

Orange residents can get free rabies vaccines for cats and dogs older than four months.

For kittens less than 4 months old, receiving the recommended 3 series of vaccines will help protect them against infectious diseases such as feline distemper, feline herpesvirus, feline calicivirus and feline leukemia.

What's different about this variant is not that the vaccine isn't effective against it, and not that adult dogs can get it, too (they can get older strains of parvo, too, but incidence is much lower than in puppies because adult dogs are easier to vaccinate effectively), but that that virus has characteristics that make it harder to diagnose with the currently standard tests.

Pets must be at least 4 months old and current on vaccines, over 6 months old without vaccines, and no older than 5 years of age.Spaying and neutering pets is a proven way to reduce pet overpopulation and increases their chances to live longer and healthier.

Many parks require your dog to be older than 4 months where the full range of puppy vaccines has been given.

If your dog is more than 6 months old, he must have a rabies vaccine and be licensed in your town.

Most vaccines are actually labeled for use in animals older than 6 weeks, which means they went through formal testing to prove efficacy and safety only in animals of this age or older.

The CDC recommends that all people older than 6 months get a flu vaccine.