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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 11:44 PM Original message |
An anniversary worth celebrating: Smallpox vaccination |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. Next up for eradication: Polio |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-27-09 11:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I hope so! |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 12:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Here's the organization working on it: |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 12:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Thanks for the link! |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 12:15 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Well, when the antivaxxers stop fighting it tooth and nail |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #1 |
24. A tougher beast for sure. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 11:53 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. It is- and it's harder to identify the afflicted |
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liberal_at_heart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
4. I completey agree |
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Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
5. I have two small pox vacs |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 01:06 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Same here. And when polio vax became available people lined up around the block with their kids... |
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BolivarianHero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 08:59 AM Response to Reply #10 |
17. "except for religious reasons." |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. What happened, from a public health perspective, is that their kids were protected by herd immunity |
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BolivarianHero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Man, I'm a 26-year-old Canadian and it's gotten more intense since the 80s by the looks of it... |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 02:54 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. This is not a true statement: |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 10:34 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. It's my sense of part of the concerns that new parents have, the part I can fully understand... |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-29-09 06:42 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. I'm not saying that it isn't a concern some parents may have. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 11:37 PM Response to Reply #5 |
27. I got poked when I joined the Army. I don't remember if I got one before |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 01:01 AM Response to Original message |
8. Thank you, United Nations! Thank you! |
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Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 01:05 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Did you have a booster 10 years later? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 01:39 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Yeah. I got stuck twice. Second stick produced only immune-reaction inflammation. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 08:56 AM Response to Reply #8 |
16. It was actually the World Health Organization. nt |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 11:29 AM Response to Reply #16 |
22. Which is a UN body. (nt) |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. duh, you are right. I went and checked, I had thought they were independant. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-29-09 01:09 AM Response to Reply #16 |
30. WHO is an arm of the UN |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
11. How soon we forget what a BLESSING vaccinations have been to humanity. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 01:58 AM Response to Original message |
13. You stupid big-pharma cheerleader. Smallpox was eradicated due to an increase in sanitation. |
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JoeyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 03:48 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Well that didn't take long. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 05:54 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Did you even read my post? |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 09:00 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Some people miss the obvious. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-28-09 11:03 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. I know you're using sarcasm but I posted this in another thread on DU |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-29-09 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
29. A great anniversary in the history of public health. My mom was a nurse during the polio pandemic, |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-29-09 07:53 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. LIFE magazine ran pix of iron lung wards; I was just a little kid and I remember that issue well... |
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