| In the last Your Health newsletter, we featured 8 Vaccines You Need After 50—and One to Consider
. The one to consider is measles, because the number of measles cases in the United States continues to climb, and not everyone 50 and over is protected. For more details, see Do I Need a Measles Shot at My Age? I asked readers which vaccines they thought were important. Here are a few responses.
My husband and I share heart disease, diabetes and COPD, and we had all of these jabs and consider them essential to our health care. Am I the only one who remembers standing in a long, snaking line around the local high school to receive the first oral polio vaccine in 1959? (I was 4!) Thousands of people couldn't wait to protect themselves and their children from the horrible scourge of polio and paralysis. — Kathryn Godfrey, 70, Lafayette, IN
I'm 81 years old, and my doctor suggested that I get the MMR vaccine. I had measles and rubella when I was a kid, so presumably, I’m immune to them, but I never had the mumps. Mumps is something I definitely do NOT want to get. (I've heard it can be particularly troublesome for men.) In fact, he recommended two rounds of the MMR vaccine, six months apart. I had the first one in March, and I have a reminder on my calendar for September. — Melville "Web" Webster, South Bend, IN |
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