Immunizations
If you or a family member needs an immunization, there is a clinic at the Broome County Health Department that offers all of the routine immunizations: polio, Hepatitis B, diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis, (DTAP), Haemophilus Influenzae B (Hib), Pneumococcal Conjugate, Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR), and varicella. We offer tetanus-diphtheria (Td) for adults and meningococcal vaccine for college students.
For people who will be traveling overseas, we give typhoid fever, yellow fever, meningococcal vaccine and Hepatitis A vaccine, and others following recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Flu vaccine is offered at different sites around Broome County. Flu vaccine is given to persons at risk on a seasonal basis. The pneumococcal vaccine is given to persons 65 years of age and older at Flu Clinics and by appointment to those at risk.
What are Vaccine Information Statements (VIS)? Vaccine Information Statements (VIS) are information sheets produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/ (CDC) that explain both the benefits and risks of a vaccine to vaccine recipients, their parents, or their legal representatives. Federal law requires that VIS be handed out whenever certain vaccinations are given.
Instructions for use of the Vaccine Information Statements http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-Instructions.pdf
