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mr_lebowski

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1. Some of this is confusing cause there's lots of vaccines used in people who aren't young

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2020, 01:19 AM

Nov 2020

A few that I know of off the top of my head:
Influenza
Yellow Fever
Typhoid
TB
Cholera
Rabies

I'm sure there's more. My folks are in their 70's and travel a LOT (or they did until last March) and they've continued to get vaccines to protect against diseases in the areas they're going to.

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Some of this is confusing cause there's lots of vaccines used in people who aren't young mr_lebowski Nov 2020 #1