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What is Pneumococcal Disease? Do you need Pneumococcal Vaccination? What can I do? What are the symptoms? Are you at risk?

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Anyone can get pneumococcal disease, but some people are at greater risk. Being a certain age or having some medical conditions increases your risk of pneumococcal disease^2,3,4

Individuals with^2,3,4

have been shown to be at increased risk of pneumococcal disease compared with those without these risk factors^2,3,4

IF YOU ARE 18+ YEARS,
TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT YOUR RISK OF PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE AND ASK ABOUT AVAILABLE VACCINATIONS THAT CAN HELP PROTECT YOU.

2. Pneumococcal Disease | Transmission and Those at High Risk CDC. 2020 [cited 26th May 2021]. Available from:
https://www.cdc.gov/pneumococcal/about/risk-transmission.html

3. Shea KM, Edelsberg J, Weycker D, Farkouh RA, Strutton DR, Pelton St. Rates of pneumococcal disease in adults with chronic medical conditions. In Open forum infectious diseases 2014 Mar 1 (Vol. 1, No. 1). Oxford University Press.

4. Pelton SI, Bornheimer R, Doroff R, Shea KM, Sato R, Weycker D. Decline in Pneumococcal Disease Attenuated in Older Adults and Those With Comorbidities Following
Universal Childhood PCV13 Immunization. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 May 17;68(11):1831-1838

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