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IggleDoer

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9. It's very frustrating for me to see people refusing shots for their kids.

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 05:31 PM

Feb 2012

If enough people are immunized against Diesase X, the disease has no opportunity to spread. Without that, unimmunized people shouldn't go to crowded areas, take public transportation, etc. Yet the parents want to be normal. In the 60s, people in a wealthy community in CT didn't get polio vaccine, basically saying that it was a disease of poor people. One kid swam in a lake with others and got polio. Before expressing symptoms, he swam in a country club pool. Thirty kids got polio, all unimmunized.

We're all in this together. Everyone must do their share.

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What goes together better than massive crowds and highly infectious diseases? Measles + Superbowl [View all] TalkingDog Feb 2012 OP

please tell me the person didn't know. nt xchrom Feb 2012 #1

Was it Wes Welker? FSogol Feb 2012 #2

Here is a non-Fox link... Ian David Feb 2012 #3

Thanks. Did not think to look for that. TalkingDog Feb 2012 #4

When I was a kid in the 50's, everybody had the measles Kingofalldems Feb 2012 #5

aren't people vaccinated today? grasswire Feb 2012 #6

Almost all US citizens are. nt Snake Alchemist Feb 2012 #7

Yes, they have vaccinations today Kingofalldems Feb 2012 #8

It's very frustrating for me to see people refusing shots for their kids. IggleDoer Feb 2012 #9