| I highy recommend both vaccines. Also for the meningiococcal vaccine be sure to get the new conjugate vaccine that was recently approved by the FDA. The US finally has moved out of the vaccine stone age on that one and caught up with Canada and Britain who have had a conjugate vaccine for years. It povides much better and longer lasting immunity than the old polysaccharide vaccines (whihc are still available).
I believe the new vaccine is called Menactra, and you local doc may not have it yet. It was approved just in January, but is being distributed to clinics now. IMO it's worth waiting for. |