When kids start getting diagnosed with SSPE and congenital rubella syndrome people will start remembering why we created these vaccines in the first place.

Thanks, but I bounced back pretty quick. Luckily my bleeding disorder resolved and I didn’t need to have my spleen removed.

Polio vaccines are still on the recommended schedule and will be until it has been eradicated entirely. There are two different polio vaccines, an oral and an injectable version, each with its pros and cons, and the US stopped using the oral polio vaccine sometime during the mid 90s and switched to the injectable.

Yes, beliefs backed up by this pesky thing called evidence which keeps showing that the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks of eschewing it. But maybe you have evidence to the contrary, something that could stand up to the rigor of research produced by the CDC, WHO and all those other health organizations.…

Add California to that list. Since SB 277 passed, children entering public schools can only be exempted from vaccine requirements for medical reasons.

I was diagnosed with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura at the time, before they linked it to anything. I’m lucky that I haven’t had any recurrences, and I got to keep my spleen, but I still zero in on platelet counts whenever I have blood work done.

Naturally acquired measles can also wipeout your existing immunity to other diseases. I had a colleague who was vaccinated against TB using the BCG vaccine, which gives false positives in the TB skin test. But he had measles after his BCG vaccination and doesn’t react to the skin test anymore.

I think it says more about anti-vaxxers that they’d rather put their kids through something like this and risk death rather than prevent it and mistakenly believe it will give their kid am ASD.

I was just going to say this, and was given the same explanation by the administering nurse. But it became a moot point when I developed an allergy to the PPD and the massive welt on my arm made really easy to see where it was placed.

The anti-vaccine continuum isn’t a line, it’s a circle, where two extremes find a common ground.

And now I’m thinking of all of the workers who have been killed trying to administer the polio vaccine. We are so close to eliminating polio, and we owe it to those who have given their lives.

I forgot about the hospitals. We really dodged a bullet there.

Washington’s effort failed. I’m scared of what it will take for a bill like that to pass.

That woman deserves all the stars.

The entire West Coast is a hotbed of anti-vaccine stupid. I was so happy when my home state eliminated any vaccine exemption that wasn't for medical reasons I started dancing.

I might be in Oregon soon, but right now I’m in Western Washington, where we have polio vaccination rates on par with the developing world, including some nations that are at war.

This is going to be long, because I have a lot of pent up feelings.

I just read an article on this, and I can’t for the life of me remember which site it was on. But the author worked in pharmaceuticals and said that people had complained that the original formulation was greasy and left a white residue. Because of the 20% zinc oxide content, the formula had to be heavy and greasy to…

Yeah, sound about right. A guy at my gym bragged about drinking some before a workout. About 20 minutes in he dashed off to the bathroom and was in there well after I left. I imagine any purported weight loss benefits are the result of a well lubricated digestive tract.

Actually, a group of researchers developed a protocol that allowed people with peanut allergies to eat peanuts without any reactions. It took a while to accomplish, and those people need to eat small amounts of peanuts every day or they’ll have another reaction, but I’m sure they can adapt it to shellfish.