How Much Do You Know About Vaccines?
Test your knowledge about vaccines with this quick quiz.
1. Only kids need vaccines. Adults don’t need vaccines.
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You never outgrow your need for vaccines. Talk with your healthcare provider about which ones you should get. He or she may advise various vaccines depending on your lifestyle, medical history, and travel plans.
2. If you are healthy, eat well, exercise, and get good sleep, you don’t need vaccines.
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IVaccines are a vital way to reduce the risk of illness for everyone, even healthy people.
3. You only need a flu vaccine every 2 years.
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Everyone 6 months and older should get a flu shot every year. Flu strains change every year, so each year the vaccine is made for those strains of flu.
4. Only people age 65 and older need the pneumonia vaccine.
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Others who should get this vaccine include people with heart, lung, or liver disease. People with diabetes should get this vaccine. You should get this vaccine if you have alcoholism or smoke cigarettes. Also, this vaccine is for people living with HIV, and those with immune disorders or chronic kidney failure.
5. Vaccines don’t cause the illness they are being given to prevent.
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Vaccines contain very tiny amounts of inactive forms of germs. They don’t contain enough of any germs to cause the illness. They just contain enough to help your body recognize the germs in the future.
6. You can only get vaccines in a doctor’s office.
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You can get vaccines in many places, such as your local pharmacy, your workplace, local vaccine clinics or hospitals, senior centers, and schools.
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