[Magdalen] Federal court backs law removing religious exemption from vaccinations.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Is diphtheria still around? I know whooping cough is--my doctor thought I might have had it about three years ago, and a co-worker had it. But I haven't heard of diphtheria in years. Do they still give the DPT vaccination to babies?

> On Aug 31, 2016, at 6:11 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Diptheria and whooping cough carry off young children.  Now we have vaccinations to keep them safe and people today, never having experienced these killers, dismiss the very real threats to their children's lives and refuse to take these simple precautions.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
> 
> 
>> On 8/31/2016 10:57 AM, ME Michaud wrote:
>> When my Auntie's mother was pregnant with her (in 1888),
>> she lost two beautiful daughters (age 4 & 6)
>> in the same night
>> to diphtheria.
>> 
>> Not surprisingly, Auntie never bonded with her mother, who was in a
>> crushing depression.
>> 
>> There was a time when these words meant something very real:
>> 
>> You shall not be afraid of any terror by night,
>> nor of the arrow that flies by day;
>> Of the plague that stalks in the darkness,
>> nor of the sickness that lays waste at mid-day.
>> 
>> -M
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wednesday, August 31, 2016, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jay.weigel at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Heck, I remember BEING quarantined for measles and mumps (possibly rubella
>>> too, although my recollections are a little foggy and run together) in that
>>> awful year
>