[CaptainAmiigaf]

I scanned all the way to YOUR post before I found what I’d “hoped” to see.
Most people my age (80) will sadly remember a time when kids didn;t complete a school year without a class mate dying from DPT,whooping cough, scarlet fever, samllpox, POLIO, measles, chicken pox, or a long list of other “childhood diseases”.
I think the majority of today’s population has NO memory of outbreaks of those once dread diseases. Worse, there is no memory of why they no longer run rampant through the schools.
Your suggestion of examining old cemeteries and seeing the appalling numbers of child deaths between a few months and the late teens is an excellent one. If one went to a cemetery and actually charted death ages, I’m afraid to think of the awful percentage of below age 10 deaths.
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[Chickensoup]

I agree up to a point.

diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, scarlet fever, polio were killers.

No memory of anyone dying of measles mumps rubella, chix pox. and if you look at the cemeteries of the sixties and seventies, there are precious few deaths from those outbreaks.

[Mamzelle]

I am old enough to remember seeing a classmate with braces on her legs from infantile paralysis. So sad. But I do not hold out much hope for trying to convince people of the dangers of large sections of the population going without vaccine.

I agree that HPV vaccine deserves scriptiny, but *rational* scrutiny. I would rather see vaccines for the other diseases that the Bush's illegal aliens are bringing our way.

[kaila]

We are going to see a lot of older adults die of chickenpox because they were vaccinated as children, and the vaccine wore off. Mark my words, it will be a real problem 30 years from now.

[onedoug]

Well met, Captain.

[1010RD]

Tradition is something we do so well, we’ve forgotten why we do it.

[Bogey78O]

Don’t forget the section that has only one date on it because the mother caught “harmless” rubella.