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

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 9/1/16 7:43 AM, ME Michaud wrote:
> They do, but it's been revised/updated.
>
> There are videos of babies and small children with whooping cough on
> youtube. Terrifying. Not for the tender hearted.
>
> Whooping cough is of concern in the unvaccinated adult immigrant
> population. There's a television commercial promoting adult vaccination.
>
> https://youtu.be/T_y3HfRGRek
>
> My friends who go to Haiti have been subjectedto boosters and vaccinations
> for all kinds of illnesses we North Americans think have been eradicated.
> -M
>
> On Wednesday, August 31, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gracecan at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> 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?

I don't know about babies, but I'm pretty sure it's been changed.  I do 
a lot of gardening, hate work gloves (except when I'm doing something 
like pruning or cutting back with roses, blackberries, anything thorny, 
when I really need them to not be shredded within five minutes), so I'm 
always getting dirty cuts and abrasions.  The T in DPT is for Tetanus, 
and Tetanus lives in soil, and is very scary if you do get dirt into 
cuts or abrasions as well as punctures.  It doesn't particularly need a 
human host to survive as an organism, so it's not just a matter of being 
exposed to some other human who has it.  The "T" part of "DPT" is 
definitely not permanent, so you need a booster--the rule of thumb 
is/was every ten years to be safe.  A relatively recent time that I was 
in a doctor's office or Health Department, it occurred to me that it had 
been well over ten years since I'd had a Tetanus shot (The last time I 
remembered was when my daughter (now over forty) was a baby), and I'd 
gotten a tetanus shot myself, because I knew I was overdue for one, and 
just to show her that injections didn't hurt that much.  Anyway, for 
some reason, this most recent time, I couldn't just get the standard 
Tetanus shot for a booster, and had to have the modern version of the 
DPT, which was called something else and was for a couple of different 
things besides Diptheria/Pertussis/Tetanus, just to get my tetanus 
booster.  Maybe they were just out of the solo Tetanus, or it might be 
no longer available at all.  I believe that it was the same shot they 
give babies now, and Margaret spoke of the revision/update.  Not being 
an AntiVaxxer, and never having had side effects from vaccinations, it 
suited me fine to be protected against more things.


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