Kids Can Pass Pneumonia Bug to Older Relatives During Holidays
A new study suggests that family get-togethers during the holidays can have a dark side, with asymptomatic children passing potentially deadly pneumonia germs to older relatives.
“Kids get colonized by strep and pneumococcus, and they are carrying it — they may not get sick from it, but the elderly are more susceptible to it,” noted Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine in New York City. He was not involved in the report, which comes from a team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Seniors can shield themselves from the threat of pneumonia, however. “People over 65 should get the pneumococcal vaccine — it lasts for six years,” Siegel said.
The new report is published as a letter in the Dec. 24 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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December 28, 2009
Tags: elderly pnuemonia, holiday pnuemonia, pnuemonia vaccine Posted in: COPD - Infections/Exacerbations/Flares, COPD and the Holidays
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