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Polio, tuberculosis, tetanus, and whooping cough for starters. Flu shots aren't that crucial, if you are not suffering from other illnesses that might affect you general health and fitness.

Bless you for actually answering the question. There are a couple of things I'm curious about, though: if polio and TB are coming back, are the vaccines targeted towards the newer strains or are they designed for the older version? I do understand that having even the old vaccines might help if I'm exposed to the new strain, but I'd like to know all the same.

Also there's a teeny tiny chance I might test positive for TB to begin with. My older sister did, but she's always been cleared of it (although getting the mandatory chest x-ray is a hassle.) My parents test positive for it too, because they got TB vaccine back in the USSR. We think that might have affected my sister in the womb as well. I *think* I was tested before going to preschool and came out negative, but I don't remember. Do they still inoculate you if you test positive but don't actually have TB?

DA - The reason why some diseases are coming back aren't because the vaccines are faulty, it's because people aren't vaccinating their kids because of concerns identical to yours, plus concerns about autism. The concerns are unfounded and not backed up by scientific research. On the other hand, the diseases are very real and potentially very harmful.

I understand your concern, but your distrust of medicine and vaccines is coloring your judgement here.

YES THIS THANK YOU FINALLY

But in that sense, isn't your blind belief and trust in medicine coloring your judgement here as well?

It's not "blind belief" when you have years and years and studies and studies and hundreds of thousands of people to refer against when you're forming decisions.

FUCKING THIS.

hm what do we take seriously here

do we listen to the decades of studies and research and hundreds of thousands of cases that tell us get your fucking vaccines

or do we listen to a few tinfoil hatters who think they know better than actual experts because they think the last 2000 years of scientific thought and learning and knowledge and discovery is a government conspiracy by jewish mushrooms to put mexican goat roofies in our grass

it's a tough choice, i admit

okay, I lol'd.

I really doubt OP needs the tuberculosis vaccine unless they're going to travel in an area where there's a lot of it, or they live in some vast city like New York.

How TB spreads, right here folks.

We live in an age of mass transit. You might never be in a high-risk TB area right now, but guaranteed that at some point in the next week (if not the next few hours) you'll be in contact with someone that was. TB is a horrifyingly easy disease to catch, and a horrifying one to treat if you catch a drug resistant strain. Not to mention that with every new case of regular old TB that emerges, the risk of a new mutant strain emerges.

We have forgotten the horrors of TB and become frightfully complacent over it. It is a bigger health concern than ebola, terrorist-created-smallpox, and influenza put together. TB just doesn't get the same airtime as those, even though it scares the pants of healthcare professionals whenever a case comes into hospital.

So you're saying that the CDC is not concerned about the transmissibility of tuberculosis and is encouraging practices that spread the disease?

Because they do not recommend the BCG vaccine except for some children who are exposed on a continual basis to infected adults and some health-care workers who serve populations with a high infection rate.

In fact, they suggest that BCG isn't even particularly effective for adults.

Also, going by the UK's NHS website, TB is not "horrifyingly easy" to catch from riding the subway with an infected person, let alone with someone who was recently in a high-risk area.

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