Adults need immunizations as well as children!
Adult Immunization Awareness Campaign
For more information contact your doctor or local public health
center.
Call the Alaska Immunization Hotline
888-430-4321
Get your Boosters!
When was your last
Tetanus/Diphtheria booster?
Has it been more than 10 years?
The Booster Rooster
Information source http://www.cdc.gov/nip/recs/adult-schedule.htm
Some adults incorrectly assume that the vaccines they received
as children will protect them for the rest of their lives. Generally
this is true, except that:
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Some adults were never vaccinated as children
- Newer
vaccines were not available when some adults were children
- Immunity
can begin to fade over time
- As
we age, we become more susceptible to serious disease
caused by common infections (e.g., flu, pneumococcus)
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List
of Vaccines for Adults
Vaccines needed by all adults
- Hepatitis
B vaccines (adults at risk)
- Measles-Mumps-Rubella
(MMR) vaccine (susceptible adults)
- Tetanus-Diphtheria
vaccine (all adults, every 10 years)
- Vaccines
for travelers
- Varicella
(chickenpox) vaccine (susceptible adults)
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Vaccines needed for those age 50 and older
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Influenza vaccine (for the flu)
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Vaccines
needed in Alaska for those age 55 and older
Vaccines
needed for healthcare workers
-
Hepatitis B
- Influenza
vaccine (annually for the flu)
- Measles-Mumps-Rubella
(MMR) vaccine
- Varicella
(chickenpox) vaccine
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Visit our web site for more information
www.epi.alaska.gov/id/immune.stm
Click
here to read proclamation from the Govener of Alaska
Frank H. Murkowski, Governor
State of Alaska
Joel Gilberston, Commissioner
Department of Health & Social Services
Division of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology
