Banta Activity Center offering flu, pneumonia shots for seniorsPat Jackson
certain adult vaccines, including shingles and pneumonia shots, may also help seniors fight off alzheimer's disease, new research reveals. prior vaccination with the shingles vaccine, pneumococcus vaccine or the tetanus and diphtheria shot, with or without an added pertussis vaccine...
seniors, and those with weakened immune systems. The flu is contagious, spreading through droplets created anytime an infected person sneezes or talks. Children may be able to pass the flu virus for longer than seven days, and some people who...
Conventional methods for diagnosing pneumonia, primarily using sputum or blood, are lengthy and require from two to three days up to several weeks. These conventional tests are often complex and the results are not always reliable. The new test is much quicker, more reliable and easier to use....
However, both shots must be given at different times. "These vaccinations cannot be given at the same time, because they induce an immune response in a different way," Fryhofer said. For older adults, the Prevnar 13 vaccine is generally given first and then the Pneumovax 23 vaccine 12 mon...