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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
The fact is, children and adults that are not vaccinated put not only themselves at risk, but people who legitimately can't get them, such as children with serious heart problems. The latter can easily die from illnesses like measles. They depend on others to get the vaccinations to protect them. The more people who don't, the more likely it will spread again widely and kill or injure people. It has been known to affect people's eyes, hearing, and lead to pneumonia among other things.
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I'm deathly allergic to Dtap vaccines which means I had no immunity to whooping cough. It went around about 10 years ago and I caught it. I was so, so sick and wound up with permanent asthma as a souvenir but the worst part was knowing that I was contagious for 3 weeks before I was really sick (you have a runny nose and maybe a cough or sneeze; I thought it was allergies). During that time I was working with fragile adults, a number of whom caught it from me and I also may have infected any infant under 2 months old or who hadn't been vaccinated yet. Infants die of whooping cough. I had a niece who was right on the edge but I fortunately hadn't seen her in the risky period. Spreading it to unvaccinated people would have been as simple as using my shopping cart after me.
I was tested and have low immunity for rubella so would need a 3rd MMR vaccine if that were to go around ever. I also never had chicken pox and so had those vaccines and need to be tested for immunity again because chicken pox as as adult can be horrible. Pretty much I'm really dependent on herd immunity and to be feared by those who haven't vaccinated or had boosters. I find it scary.
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