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

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Or after 5 if you have another incident, especially outside
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On Sep 1, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

I cut myself badly with a kitchen knife earlier this year and it occurred
to me that I hadn't had a tetanus shot in probably 10 years, so I hied
myself to the urgent care center and got one. Not fun, and it cost me, but
worth it anyway. Now I won't have to have one for another 10 years.

> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>