Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: rickman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Vaccinations Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 21:26:41 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 02:24:56 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b6443822665b11d600c80c1d7678cd9f"; logging-data="15068"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+d8GuaNaoZ2RNHExS7QYt3" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:tR7i3ZLVYvJxT+Xtpl8K/HS5Uos= Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:446573 On 2/6/2017 7:55 PM, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote: > On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 11:50:29 AM UTC+11, Don Y wrote: >> Trip to PCP and now there's talk of HepB, HPV, and meningitis vaccinations >> in addition to the previous recommendations (guidelines) on Pneumonia and >> Shingles. (I recall being tested for HepC but that was supposedly >> just a general recommendation for my age group) >> >> Anyone else seeing any of this? > > In Australia there's a recommendation for anti-shingle vaccination for my age-group - 70+. It hasn't happened yet, and my GP will probably fill me in the next time I see her. > > Not getting shingles is a good move. One of our even older friends got it, and it's no fun. I don't get the shingles vaccine. It is only something like 50 to 60% effective and the number gets worse in older age groups. That is not surprising as shingles is just a reemergence of the chickenpox virus due to a weakened immune system. Older people have weaker immune systems. This both increases the risk of a shingles outbreak and reduces the effectiveness of the vaccine. Seems like we can't win on that one. -- Rick C