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Show Vaccine for pneumonic!: available in single dost By Urry Wiklen. M.D. A vaccine for the prevention of pneumonia is now availablethat can be administered intermuscularly in a single dose at the same time as an influenza in-fluenza vaccine is given. The vaccine pneumococcal, should be given at a different site than the influenza in-fluenza vaccine. Indications for the pneumococcal vaccine are seen in patients pa-tients more than two years old with a high risk of servious pneumococcal infection: in-fection: patients who have had their spleen removed, those with sickle cell anemia, and children with kidney disease. Others of high risk are all patients pa-tients more than 50 years old. those of any age with altered immune response due to drugs or disease, and Ihosc w ith congestive heart failure, chronic pulmonary disease, alcoholic cirrhosis; or diabetes. I t The vaccine is less effectives.' ' ing immunological status in sec-h. t risk patients than in healthy :..r Adverse reactions such as kv and local erythema are fr?: t noted following vaccina::;: f soreness may sometimes pess u-.t w et k or more. Fever occk sionally following injection lU tihodies persist as long as fin si i follow ing vaccination, it istlvi." tit one injection every five yei,"5s 1 quale. Immunization is now avii- i should bo noted for infiuems j ! and B and also for the cr endemic Bangkok flu, ialilx? & . probably too late to be ic:-' 0 against it since it is endemic ii v at the present time). tS |