WE STRESS GETTING A FLU SHOT, BUT…

• Each year in the United States, as many as 50,000-70,000 American adults die needlessly from vaccine-preventable diseases or their complications.
• Pneumonia and influenza together are the fifth leading cause of death in the nation for older adults.
• Annually, pneumococcal disease accounts for an estimated 500,000 cases of pneumonia, 50,000 cases of bacteremia, and 3,000 cases of meningitis. All preventable.
• Pneumococcal pneumonia, the most common type of pneumonia, accounts for 25% to 35% of all adult pneumonia leading to hospitalization.
• Hepatitis, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella and pneumonia, all potential adult diseases, are all preventable with a simple vaccine.

October 10th through 16th Is National Adult Immunization Week

Call your health care provider, visit the National Coalition for Adult Immunization, or call the Lee County Health Department at 332-9501 for more information.