Anti-vacc
Anti-vaccine campaigners are murderers. It's actually that simple.
Vaccination rates falling in the USA https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/01/12/childhood-vaccination-rates-drop/11039032002/
And in the UK
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/warning-numerous-measles-outbreaks-startling-26124504
Anti-vacc
@cabd Had 73 years of vax. Still alive. Haven’t had diphtheria, whooping cough, scarlet fever, polio, TB, Covid (fingers crossed), no flu since vax started and I even have been vaccinated against smallpox - which I haven’t had. I did have measles and mumps but vaccine wasn’t available then
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Myself, likewise! In addition to those you mention, I have also had all the ones you have before going to the tropics; cholera, typhoid and all that lot, plus Hep A + B.
About a fortnight after arriving home, in Luxembourg, after a trip to Thailand, I was contacted by the Luxembourg health authorities who asked me if I had been a passenger on such and such a flight from Bangkok to Paris and when I confirmed that I had indeed been on that flight they asked me if I would be prepared to go for screening for tuberculosis as there had been a passenger on that flight who had had open, infectious tuberculosis. I'm pretty sure I know which passenger it was as there was someone sitting only two or three metres from me who spent the whole flight coughing their lungs up!
Obviously, I agreed to be tested and I was given a Mantoux tuberculin skin test which came back very strongly positive for TB. I was then given another, much more sensitive test which thankfully came back negative; they repeated the more sensitive test six months later and it was again negative.
I asked the Doctor who was supervising the screening why the Mantoux test had been so very positive and he said that it was probably an unusually extended immunity provided by the BCG vaccination that I had when I was about 12. Apparently, in most patients, the immunity provided by the BCG vaccine only lasts for about 20 years however in a few cases it persists for much longer - in my case for 60 years!
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@Paulos_the_fog @cabd My wife still claims she was conceived in a TB hospital where her father was a patient. She tested immune. But danger is there are new forms of TB. I still remember the Buses in Reading UK with No Spitting signs to reduce the spread of TB. I bet you were worried for a bit.
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@JohnLoader6 @cabd
Yep - absolutely shitting myself!
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@Paulos_the_fog @cabd thank heavens that wasn’t a symptom of TB