{"id":16525,"date":"2020-07-27T10:36:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T14:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16525"},"modified":"2020-07-27T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T14:36:53","slug":"flu-shot-and-pneumonia-vaccine-might-reduce-alzheimers-risk-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16525","title":{"rendered":"Flu Shot And Pneumonia Vaccine Might Reduce Alzheimer&#8217;s Risk, Research Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>For years, public health officials have been trying to dispel the\u00a0myth\u00a0that people who get a flu shot are more likely to get Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p>They are not. And now there is evidence that vaccines that protect against the flu and pneumonia may actually protect people from Alzheimer&#8217;s, too.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence comes from\u00a0two studies\u00a0presented Monday at this year&#8217;s\u00a0Alzheimer&#8217;s Association International Conference, which is being held as a virtual event.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/07\/27\/894731147\/flu-shot-and-pneumonia-vaccine-might-reduce-alzheimers-risk-research-shows\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) For years, public health officials have been trying to dispel the\u00a0myth\u00a0that people who get a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16526,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525\/revisions\/16526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}