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Originally Posted by Luggage
When you go to your doctor is definitely a good question to ask as they are the experts however I was looking up just last month about vaccinations in general from our earlier childhood years and there are quite a few that you should get boosters that I recommended Tdap is a series for for four specific diseases that we can catch in our old age as well as of course shingles, and the regular Chinese flu yearly but the first few I mentioned are extremely important as they do weekend as we age so of course please talk to your doctor
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Just to clarify a bit. Tdap protects against THREE diseases---tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. Plain tetanus is recommended as a "booster" every 10 years, pertussis in some situations, and we rarely give diphtheria vaccine boosters. You cannot "catch" shingles, it is a reactivation of the varicella (chicken pox) virus from childhood that stayed dormant in the dorsal root ganglia. And the "regular flu" is not necessarily Chinese. ( and that's weaken, not weekend). End of clarification.