Adolescents do not need to worry about getting the Tdap vaccine (to protect against Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis) because most children under the age of 7 are given the Tdap vaccine to protect against the same diseases.

Anyone can get meningococcal disease, but it is most common in infants less than one year of age and people with certain medical conditions, such as lack of a spleen. 

The HPV vaccine is not really important for teens to get since HPV infections don’t cause any serious symptoms and go away on their own. 

Children and adolescents through 18 years of age should get the hepatitis B vaccine if they did not get the vaccine series as infants.

Polio is a disease that was of concern to our parents and grandparents years ago. Teens today do not need to get the vaccine for polio.