Doctor's office. (Did You Know?).Every year 40,000 older Americans lose their lives to pneumococcal pneumococcal /pneu·mo·coc·cal/ (-kok´al) pertaining to or caused by pneumococci. infections, which cause pneumonia, sinus and inner-ear infections, and meningitis meningitis (mĕnĭnjī`tĭs) or cerebrospinal meningitis (sĕr'əbrōspī`nəl), acute inflammation of the meninges, the membranes that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord. . Yet one lifetime inoculation inoculation, in medicine, introduction of a preparation into the tissues or fluids of the body for the purpose of preventing or curing certain diseases. The preparation is usually a weakened culture of the agent causing the disease, as in vaccination against can cut the rate of infection by 60%. Despite this fact, only 14% of persons 65 and older have received the vaccine, which can be given in a doctor's office." From the Administration on Aging's "Vaccinations--Aren't Just Kid Stuff" |
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