People need vaccinations {immunization}|, at specific ages.
baby
Combined vaccination for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP) is at 2 months, 3 1/2 months, 5 months, 15 months, and 3 years. Vaccination for polio is at 2 months, 3 1/2 months, 5 months, 15 months, and 6 years. Vaccination for measles, mumps, and rubella is at one year.
child
Combined vaccination for tetanus and diphtheria (TD) is at 6 years, 12 years, and then every 10 years. By age 6, people need vaccinations against chickenpox, diphtheria, flu or Streptococcus pneumoniae {pneumococcus}, hepatitis A and B, measles, meningitis or Hemophilus influenzae b (Hib), mumps, pneumonia (PCV), polio, rotovirus, rubella, tetanus, and whooping cough.
adult
Vaccination for mumps is at 12 years. By age 18, women need vaccinations against cervical cancer {human papillomavirus}. By age 18, people need vaccinations against meningitis {meningococcus}.
other
People can have vaccinations against plague, rabies, and anthrax. Travelers can have vaccination against cholera. Smallpox no longer requires vaccination.
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