{"id":11048,"date":"2024-10-06T01:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=11048"},"modified":"2024-10-06T01:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T18:22:31","slug":"vaccines-for-adults-which-do-i-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=11048","title":{"rendered":"Vaccines for adults: Which do I need?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"transcript-kaltura-video-1_mqyfyyzh\">\n<p><strong>Ian Roth:<\/strong> Aging is inevitable, and parts of the process can be unpleasant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregory Poland, M.D., Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic:<\/strong> &#8220;As you get older, your immune system gets weaker. That&#8217;s why we see more severe infections in older people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Roth:<\/strong> Dr. Gregory Poland, who heads up the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group, says it&#8217;s why vaccines become especially important as you get older. And it&#8217;s why his team at Mayo Clinic looks for ways to tailor vaccines to better protect older people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Poland:<\/strong> &#8220;There are three influenza vaccines, one shingles vaccine, and one hepatitis B vaccine that have been designed around those issues and that work better than the standard vaccines in older people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Roth:<\/strong> He says it&#8217;s important to note that these vaccines aren&#8217;t perfect and won&#8217;t always prevent you from getting an illness, but they do protect you from complications from illnesses like the flu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Poland:<\/strong> &#8220;So you might have had sniffles or fever. You were home for a day or two from work, but you didn&#8217;t get hospitalized. You didn&#8217;t get pneumonia. And you didn&#8217;t die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Roth:<\/strong> For the Mayo Clinic News Network, I&#8217;m Ian Roth.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/healthy-lifestyle\/adult-health\/in-depth\/vaccines\/art-20046750\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Roth: Aging is inevitable, and parts of the process can be unpleasant. Gregory Poland, M.D., Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic: &#8220;As you get older, your immune system gets weaker. That&#8217;s why we see more severe infections in older people.&#8221; Ian Roth: Dr. Gregory Poland, who heads up the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group, says &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}