Vaccines aren’t just for kids, as the final week of National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) stresses.

NIAM is sponsored by the National Public Health Information Coalition in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, to raise awareness about the important role vaccines play in preventing serious, and sometimes deadly, diseases across the lifespan. Nurse Lynn Fisher with Washington County Public Health mentions the important vaccines for adults, “Hepatitis A, depending on your job Hepatitis B, tetanus shot updates, and of course the influenza shot, so just because we’re adults doesn’t mean we’re done with our shots.”

CDC recommends all adults get the influenza vaccine every year, and adults should get the Tdap vaccine once if they didn’t receive it as an adolescent to protect against whooping cough, and then a Td (tetanus, diphtheria) booster shot every 10 years. For more information on recommended vaccines throughout the lifespan visit here.