As reported in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, last month the CDC released data showing that inoculation rates for adults "range from 6 percent to 57 percent depending on the vaccine." This includes the vaccine for the whooping cough--which Passport Health Northern Ohio actively carries and administers. Whooping cough "has reached epidemic levels in California, with 6,400 cases, including 10 infant deaths this year, according to the CDC. That's a 418 percent increase over 2009, and the most cases since 1958." In addition, "Whooping cough has spiked in six other states including Ohio, where 1,546 cases have been reported this year."
"The CDC recommends adults get vaccines for flu, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), shingles, pneumococcal pneumonia, meningococcal meningitis, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and measles, mumps and rubella. Inoculations protect adults against viruses that can cause cancer, reactivation of the chickenpox virus that leads to shingles, and bacteria linked to some forms of pneumonia."
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2010/12/few_adults_get_vaccinations_th.html
No comments:
Post a Comment