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

[Susan Hagen]

As Sibyl and Jay noted adults need to keep up with tetanus boosters.
I try to keep mine within the 10 year range because I don't want to
worry every time I get scuffed up doing yard work.  My doctor doesn't
stock it and told me of a pharmacy that did where I could just walk in
and ask for it.



On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:49 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
>>



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