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Show Flu Shots Can Help Annual influenza vaccination vaccina-tion generally is advised for anyone with chronic heart, lung, or kidney disease and diabetes, other chronic illness and for people over 65. FLU SHOTS generally are not recommended for healthy children or adults under 65 and most definitely should not be given to anyone allergic to eggs. The vaccine is grown in eggs. Recommendations for dosage and booster doses may vary from year to year, the American Medical Association Associa-tion points out. The time to start flu immunization is well in advance of the winter , season of cold weather. ROUTINE smallpox vacin-nation vacin-nation no longer is recommended recom-mended in the United States, and the World Health Organization Or-ganization has report. recently that smallpox has now been eliminated from the entire world. 4 Vaccination is no longer required for travelers entering enter-ing the U.S. from foreign nations. na-tions. IN A WELL organized community with water purification, pasteurization of milk and safeguarding of food, vaccination against typhoid fever is unnecessary. Rarely, it might be advisable advisa-ble for foreign travel into areas where typhoid is common. com-mon. OTHER vaccinations may be recommended or required for travelers entering areas where specific diseases such as yellow fever, plague, cholera and typhus are prevalent. Your local health department depart-ment will have current information. infor-mation. ALTHOUGH vaccine is given infrequently for tuberculosis, tuber-culosis, many physicians test for it around 12 months of age. The TB" test is a skin test in which the site of the test is observed at 24 to 72 hours to determine if a reaction reac-tion has occurred. Appropriate medical attention atten-tion for the disease can be given when it is detected by skin test or x-ray film in early childhood. |
