A 60-year-old man with long-standing hypertension and diabetes presents with progressive exertional dyspnoea and orthopnoea. Echocardiography shows EF...

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A 60-year-old man with long-standing hypertension and diabetes presents with progressive exertional dyspnoea and orthopnoea. Echocardiography shows EF 30%. Which vaccination is particularly important in this patient to reduce morbidity?

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Annual inactivated influenza vaccine

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Live attenuated influenza vaccine

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No specific vaccines are indicated

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BCG vaccine

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Yellow fever vaccine

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A 60-year-old man with long-standing hypertension and diabetes presents with progressive exertional dyspnoea and orthopnoea. Echocardiography shows EF 30%. Which vaccination is particularly important in this patient to reduce morbidity?