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The following table provides information for all routinely recommended vaccines for adults.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Information for vaccines routinely recommended for adults:
Vaccine Indications
Chickenpox

The chickenpox (varicella) vaccine helps prevent chicken pox. People born in the United States before 1980 are considered to be immune to chickenpox.

Who should get the chickenpox vaccine (if no evidence of immunity):
  • People born in the United States in 1980 or later
  • People who have never received a diagnosis or verificiation of history of varicella infection or hepres zoster infection by a health care provider
  • People who do not have laboratory evidence of immunity or disease
  • People who have close contact with other people who are at high risk for chickenpox (such as health care workers and those who live with people who have a weakened immune system)
  • People in settings where chickenpox can spread easily (such as teachers, childcare workers, and college students)
  • International travelers

Who should not get the chickenpox vaccine:
  • Pregnant women
  • People with a weakened immune system
  • People with HIV infection and a CD4 percentage <15% or a CD4 count under 200

Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/varicella.pdf for information about chickenpox and chickenpox (varicella) vaccine.
COVID-19

COVID-19 vaccines help protect you against severe complications from COVID-19 infection, including hospitalization and death.

Who should get the COVID-19 vaccine:
-All persons 6 months of age and older should get at least 1 dose of updated (2023-2024 formula) COVID-19 vaccine.

Go to https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html to learn more about staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccines
Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A vaccine helps prevent hepatitis A virus infection. Hepatitis A can cause jaundice, diarrhea, fever, and weakness that can be severe.

Who should get the hepatitis A vaccine:
  • Anyone who wants protection against hepatitis A virus infection
  • People with chronic liver disease (such as alcoholic liver disease or cirrhosis)
  • People who use drugs
  • Men who have sex with men
  • Persons experiencing homelessness
  • People who travel outside of the United States to areas where hepatitis A is common*
  • People who work with hepatitis A virus in a laboratory
  • People who have close contact with an international adoptee from an area where hepatitis A is common*
  • People who work in settings that have direct contact with others who have hepatitis A

*Go to https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases for a list of countries where hepatitis A is common.
Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/hep-a.pdf for information about hepatitis A disease and hepatitis A vaccine.
Hepatitis B

Hepatitis B vaccine helps prevent hepatitis B virus infection. Hepatitis B virus infection can cause liver disease and liver cancer.

Who should get the hepatitis B vaccine:
  • All adults 19 through 59 years of age
  • People 60 years or older with known risk factors for hepatitis B virus infection
  • Anyone who wants protection against hepatitis B virus infection
  • People who are at risk by blood or mucus exposure (for example, health care workers and people who use injection drugs)
  • People who are at risk by sexual contact (for example, sexually active persons who are not in monogamous relationships)
  • Men who have sex with men
  • People living with someone who has active hepatitis B infection
  • People with end-stage kidney disease (or on dialysis), diabetes, chronic liver disease (such as alcoholic liver disease or cirrhosis) or hepatitis C infection, or HIV infection
  • Staff and clients in sexually transmitted disease, HIV, drug abuse, hemodialysis, developmental disabilities, or correctional facilities
  • People who travel outside of the United States to areas where hepatitis B is common*

*Go to https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases for a list of countries where hepatitis B is common.
Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/hep-b.pdf for information about hepatitis B disease and hepatitis B vaccine.
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)

Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b) vaccine helps prevent a serious infection of the throat, lungs and covering of the brain.

Who should get the Hib vaccine:
  • People with a missing or damaged spleen or sickle cell disease
  • People who received hematopoietic stem cell transplant (such as a bone marrow transplant)

Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/hib.pdf for information about Haemophilus influenzae type b and Hib vaccine.
HPV - Human Papillomavirus

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine helps prevent infections that lead to cancers of the cervix, penis, and anus. Some HPV infections cause genital warts.

Who should get the HPV vaccine:
  • Anyone who has not completed the HPV vaccination series through age 26 years

Vaccination is not recommended for everyone older than age 26 years. However, some adults ages 27 through 45 years may decide to get the HPV vaccine based on discussion with their clinician, if they did not get adequately vaccinated when they were younger.No additional dose recommended when any HPV vaccine series has been completed
Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/hpv.pdf for information about HPV and HPV vaccine.
IPV - Inactivated Polio Vaccine

Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) is the only polio vaccine that has been given in the United States since 2000. IPV can prevent polio, which is a disabling and potentially deadly disease. While routine poliovirus vaccination of adults residing in the United States is not necessary, some adults who are at increased risk of exposure to poliovirus may need to be vaccinated.

Who should get the poliovirus vaccine:
  • If you have never received a complete polio vaccination series (i.e., at least 3 doses).
  • If you have completed the polio vaccination series (i.e., at least 3 doses), you may receive one lifetime IPV booster dose.
Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/public/index.html to learn more about polio vaccination.
Seasonal Flu (Influenza)

Adults should get the flu vaccine every year to help prevent getting influenza and spreading it to other people. Influenza is a respiratory infection that can result in serious illnesses and complications.

Who should get the flu vaccine:
  • People 6 months of age or older who do not have contraindications
  • People who are 65 years of age and older should receive a high-dose influenza vaccine. If not available, then any other age appropriate influenza vaccine should be used.

Who should not get the flu vaccine:
  • People who have had a severe reaction to a flu vaccine

Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/flulive.pdf and https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/flu.pdf for information about influenza and flu vaccine.
Meningococcal

Meningococcal vaccines help prevent serious and even life-threatening infections of the blood or covering of the brain.

There are two types of meningococcal vaccines- MenACWY and MenB.
Who should get both MenACWY and MenB vaccines:
  • People with a missing or damaged spleen, sickle cell disease, or complement deficiencies
  • People who work with meningococcal bacteria in the laboratory
Who should get MenACWY vaccine:
  • People with HIV infection
  • Military recruits
  • First-year college students who live in residential housing if they did not receive MenACWY at age 16 years or older
  • People who travel to countries where meningococcal disease is common*
Who may get the MenB vaccine series:
  • Some healthy young adults 16 through 23 years of age after discussion with their health care provider

*Go to https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases for a list of countries where meningococcal disease is common.
Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/mening.pdf for information about meningococcal disease and meningococcal vaccines.
MMR - Measles-mumps-rubella

The MMR vaccine helps prevent measles, mumps and rubella. These diseases can cause serious illness, complications, or death. People born in the U.S. before 1957 are considered to be immune.

Who should get the MMR vaccine (if no evidence of immunity):
  • People born in 1957 or later
  • Women who are not pregnant, but could become pregnant; rubella could cause miscarriage or serious birth defects
  • International travelers, close contacts of people with weakened immune systems, and college students
  • Health care workers
Who should not get the MMR vaccine:
  • Pregnant women
  • People with a weakened immune system
  • People with HIV infection and a CD4 count under 200

Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/mmr.pdf for information about measles, mumps, and rubella and MMR vaccine.
Mpox

The Mpox vaccine helps protect against mpox infections. Mpox is a viral disease that can cause severe infections and illness.

Who should get Mpox vaccine:
Persons who are gay, bisexual, and other MSM, transgender or nonbinary people who in the past 6 months have had:
  • A new diagnosis of at least 1 sexually transmitted disease
  • More than 1 sex partner
  • Sex at a commercial sex venue
  • Sex in association with a large public event in a geographic area where Mpox transmission is occurring

  • Persons who are sexual partners of the persons described above
  • Persons who anticipate experiencing any of the situations described above

Go to https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/index.html for more information about Mpox and Mpox vaccination.
RSV - Respiratory syncytial virus

RSV vaccines help protect against serious respiratory illness from RSV disease.

Who should get RSV vaccine:
  • Adults aged 60 years and older may receive a single dose of RSV vaccine using shared clinical decision-making.
  • Pregnant people eligible for maternal RSV vaccine during weeks 32 through 36 of pregnancy, administered immediately before or during RSV season. Alternatively, an infant can be immunized with an RSV monoclonal antibody to prevent respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory tract infection in infants

Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/rsv/index.html for more information about RSV and RSV immunization.
Pneumococcal

Pneumococcal vaccines help prevent serious and even life-threatening infections of the lungs, blood, or covering of the brain.
There are three types of pneumococcal vaccine - PCV15, PCV20, and PPSV23.

Who should get 1 dose of PCV20, or 1 dose of PCV15 followed by 1 dose of PPSV23 at least 1 year later:
  • People 65 years of age and older who have not received a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine or whose previous vaccination history is unknown
  • People 19 -64 years of age with certain underlying medical conditions or other risk factors*

* Underlying medical conditions or other risk factors include alcoholism, chronic heart/liver/lung disease, chronic renal failure, cigarette smoking, cochlear implant, congenital or acquired asplenia, CSF leak, diabetes mellitus, generalized malignancy, HIV, Hodgkin disease, immunodeficiency, iatrogenic immunosuppression, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, nephrotic syndrome, solid organ transplants, or sickle cell disease or other hemoglobinopathies.



Who should get 1 dose of PCV20, or 1 dose of PCV15 followed by 1 dose of PPSV23 at least 8 weeks later:
  • People with certain immunocompromising conditions,** cochlear implants and cerebrospinal fluid leaks.
  • People with cerebrospinal fluid leak or cochlear implant

**Immunocompromising conditions include chronic renal failure, nephrotic syndrome, immunodeficiency, iatrogenic immunosuppression, generalized malignancy, human immunodeficiency virus, Hodgkin disease, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, solid organ transplants, congenital or acquired asplenia, sickle cell disease, or other hemoglobinopathies.



Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/pcv13.pdf and https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/ppv.pdf for information about pneumococcal disease and pneumococcal vaccines.
Tdap - Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis

Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccine (Tdap) helps protect against tetanus (lockjaw), diphtheria (a severe infection of the nose, throat, or airway), and pertussis (whooping cough). People need 1 dose of Tdap in a lifetime except for pregnant women (see below).

Who should get Tdap vaccine:
  • People who previously did not receive a dose of Tdap (Tdap is routinely given at age 11-12 years).
  • People who did not receive primary vaccination series for tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis.
  • People who have completed their childhood tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis vaccination series that did not include a dose of Tdap (Tdap is routinely given at age 11-12 years)
  • Pregnant women (a dose of Tdap should be given during each pregnancy)
  • People who have close contact with infants younger than 12 months
  • Health care workers
  • People who sustained a dirty wound and have not received tetanus toxoid containing vaccine in the last 5 years.

People need a booster dose of either Td or Tdap every 10 years.
Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/td-tdap.pdf for information about tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis and Td and Tdap vaccines.
Td - Tetanus and diphtheria

Tetanus and diphtheria vaccine (Td) protects against tetanus (lockjaw) and diphtheria (a severe infection of the nose, throat, or airway).

Who should get Td vaccine:
  • People who have not received Td or Tdap vaccine in the last 10 years
  • People who sustained a dirty wound and have not received tetanus toxoid containing vaccine in the last 5 years.
  • See related recommendations for tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccine (Tdap). People need a booster dose of either Td or Tdap every 10 years.
Zoster (Shingles)

Shingles (zoster) vaccine helps prevent shingles and the severe pain that may remain after the rash goes away. Shingles can lead to complications involving the eye, pneumonia, inflammation of the brain, and other conditions.

The recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV, Shingrix) is the shingles vaccine for persons 50 and older.
Who should get the shingles vaccine (RZV):
  • Adults 50 years of age and older
  • Adults 19-49 years of age with immunocompromising conditions, including HIV
  • Adults who already received ZVL(Zostavax) should get RZV (Shingrix)
Who should not get shingles vaccine:
  • Pregnant women should consider delaying RZV until after pregnancy

Go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/shingles.pdf for information about shingles and shingles vaccines.

For more information:

To access the recommended adult immunization schedule and a table listing main contraindications, go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/adult.html

Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) for each of the vaccines are available at https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/index.html.

Information on travel vaccine requirements and recommendations (hepatitis A and B, meningococcal, and other vaccines) are available at https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/list/.

The latest versions of individual vaccine recommendations can be found at https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/index.html.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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