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Help! College recommends whooping cough, meningitis shots
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 631693:MV83NDU4OTlfMTE0NDI0NzlfOENGNkU0RUI=] whooping cough is more of a danger to infants and toddlers ..in older ones its the 100 day hacking cough which can mean being off work or out of classes during the time its infectious. See if it needs updating. Meningitis is easily spread and is a killer. People can be fine one moment and dead a few hours later... so arrange for those immunisation doses. Up to you but maybe also look at getting a typhoid shot perhaps later in the year especially if the young person wants to travel abroad but best to get that done when they're living at home for a week or so as its quite strong and most people react as in almost pass out an hour or so later. [/quote]
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My 18-year old son has been accepted this fall into a public university. The college requires verification of measles (Rubeola) immunity for all students born after December 31, 1956. He's had his measles shots so he's OK there.
But then I found out via my doctor's office that whooping cough has been known to shut down another college's baseball team because of a whooping cough epidemic in 2008. The nurse said they could give the whooping cough vaccination in with a tetanus shot. But his tetanus shot is up-to-date (2006).
If that wasn't scary enough, the college also said that meningitis afflicts between 100 and 125 students on college campuses every year in the U.S. and 'immunity is particularly important for students who will be living in densely populated settings such as residence halls, fraternities, or sororities'.
I have to see the doctor anyway to sign off on the measles immunization (to prove my son had the shots). But what to do with the tetanus/whooping cough/meningitis vaccinations? I'm suppose to go to the clinic tomorrow (March 10th).
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