"Gerry" wrote in message news:od2uhr$ds0$1...@news.albasani.net...
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>On 2017-04-17 13:26:20 +0000, David J. Littleboy said:
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>> Ditto. Condolences.
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>Thanks to all for these. As life proceeds, people leave the party, and one
>acclimates to the process.
Well, it's hard. In one's 40s and 50s, it's one's parents' generation, and
when that process peters out, it's our turn. So there's always a new
disaster coming up. Sigh. Like the twats say, the only thing worse than
getting old is not getting old.
>> Hmm. I was reading the poster on wall at my primary care doc's office,
>> and it seems in Japan everyone over 65 is getting the pneumonia vaccine
>> (which happens this summer here), something I hadn't even heard about,
>> and I've been following medical blogs and keeping my eye on problems we
>> elderly face fairly closely of late (this is after my father ran into
>> horrific medical malpractice in the US).
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>> Ah, I see the US recommends it as well.
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https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/pneumo/public/index.html
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>Interesting; thanks for that. The CDC says: "CDC recommends pneumococcal
>vaccination for all babies and children younger than 2 years old and all
>adults 65 years or older." That's pretty direct.
The CDC says it. The Japanese do it. They sent me (and every other aging
twat who gets health insurance over here, namely every single one of us) a
letter saying "get your arse over to you doc's office. Now."
Vaccinations are less effective for older folks, and this one only reduces
pneumonia deaths by 60% or so. But over here, pneumonia is the leading cause
of death.
(Grumble: one can't compare mortality statistics between the US and Japan,
because one of us lists Alzheimer's as a cause of death, and the other
insists that it's always something else that kills folks with Alzheimer's.)