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yellowdogintexas

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4. It is recommended that if there is a newborn or other unvaccinated child in your life you should

Reply to Delmette2.0 (Reply #2)

Wed May 15, 2019, 12:39 PM

May 2019

get a booster for Whooping Cough.. If your doctor has you on a 10yr booster schedule for tetanus, you will also receive Whooping cough, since they are piggybacked.

Our daughter demanded we get boosters before her baby is born, so we did. She's having a bit of resistance from her mother in law and father in law.

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It's Not Just Measles. What You Should Know About Vaccines For Adults: [View all] Pluvious May 2019 OP

The CDC has tables of recommended vaccinations and immunizations by age csziggy May 2019 #1

So true. Delmette2.0 May 2019 #2

It is recommended that if there is a newborn or other unvaccinated child in your life you should yellowdogintexas May 2019 #4

I got a fuck-ton of vaccines when I joined the Army. Aristus May 2019 #3

Annual flu shots A DAY IN THE LIFE May 2019 #5

as I remember, it was always the men more freaked out by those shots Skittles May 2019 #10

I am pro-vaccine but not pro over-vaccinating. IMO a tetanus shot is not necessary until an injury in2herbs May 2019 #6

there are two tetanus shots Kali May 2019 #8

mucho vaccinations padfun May 2019 #7

K & R, N/T Lady Freedom Returns May 2019 #9