How Often Should I Have The Pneumonia Vaccine?
Health Encyclopedia: Atypical Pneumonia
Walking pneumonia; Chlamydophila pneumoniae
Prevention
There are no proven methods for preventing atypical pneumonia, and no vaccinations are available at this time for atypical pneumonias.
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Expert & Community Posts
Should People With Asthma Get the Pneumonia Vaccine?
By Fred Little , Health Expert...review the impact that severe infections from a common pneumonia bacterium can have on... Read more »
Should patients who have heart disease take vaccinations for flu, pneumonia, and shingles?
By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert...but they are not often seen as causes of death. A pneumonia vaccination fortunately is needed... Read more »
Seasonal Flu, Swine Flu and Pneumonia Vaccines for People With Asthma
By Kathi MacNaughton , Health Expert...plan into effect, focused on the seasonal flu and pneumonia. These respiratory infections can be... Read more »
It's Autumn: Do You Know Where Your Flu Shot Is Coming From?
By Kathi MacNaughton , Health Expert...preventing winter viruses, including the flu and pneumonia. These respiratory infections can be... Read more »
Lots of shots.
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert...shot") Pneumococcal polysaccharide ("PPSV") (the "pneumonia shot") And if other risk factors are... Read more »
Health Guide
Viral pneumonia
Pneumonia - viral Prevention Vaccines are available for influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus for people at high risk of these forms of... Read more »Time for a Flu Shot?
...medical conditions, the flu shot is 30 percent to 70 percent effective in preventing hospitalization for pneumonia and influenza. Among elderly nursing home residents, the flu shot is most... Read more »Meningitis: pneumococcal
Pneumococcal meningitis Prevention Early treatment of pneumonia and ear infections caused by pneumococcus may decrease the risk of meningitis. There are also... Read more »Pneumonia
Pneumonitis; Bronchopneumonia; Community-acquired pneumonia Prevention Wash your hands frequently, especially after blowing your nose, going to the... Read more »Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine
...pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine helps protect against severe infections due to the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae. This bacteria frequently causes meningitis and pneumonia in older adults... Read more »Images
Medications
...also used to prevent and treat a certain type of pneumonia (pneumocystis-type). This medication... Read more »
...effects occur: signs of a lung infection called pneumonia (e.g., fever, cough, trouble... Read more »
...effects. Serious infections (e.g., skin infections, pneumonia, bone/joint infections, sinusitis)... Read more »
...possibly fatal side effects (e.g., heart failure, pneumonia, stroke) when this medication is... Read more »
...risk of serious, possibly fatal side effects (e.g., pneumonia, heart failure) when this... Read more »
Related News
Earlier Vaccination Saves Babies? Lives
November 12, 2008By Kirsten Houmann, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A simple shift in your baby's vaccination schedule may... Read summary »
Vaccine for Healthy Preemies
July 12, 2006AUGUSTA, Ga. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- It's a virus that causes epidemics of bronchitis and pneumonia in babies worldwide. Respiratory syncytial... Read summary »
Pneumonia vaccine may help limit H1N1 flu deaths
August 10, 2009The more life-threatening consequences of the H1N1 swine flu virus are linked to pneumonia, but that the pneumonia vaccine is being underused, health... Read summary »
Pneumonia vaccine lowers heart attack risk
October 09, 2008Canadian researchers say people who receive a pneumonia vaccine may halve their risk of having a heart attack two years later. For the study,... Read summary »
Government panel recommends smokers get vaccine
August 07, 2009A federal advisory committee is recommending that smokers under the age of 65 get a pneumococcal vaccine. This marks the first time a vaccine has... Read summary »
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