We do tuberculosis as well, thinking about it, tho some parts of the UK do it at birth and some at 12 yrs.

Yes we do vaccinate for HPV

I believe HPV is not mandatory in the US at this point, but they do push the ads on TV!! Some guilt trip laying ads even! I don’t have kids so I think I’ve heard my cousin talking about having to get chicken pox vaccines for her kids, and it doesn’t prevent or lessen shingles, there’s a different vaccine for that when you get older.

we do small pox as routine. chicken pox only came out a while ago, and is more of a QoL (because the shingles virus going acute is no joke.)

The chicken pox one is surprising, be cause if you don't have chicken pox, the chances of getting shingles is considerably reduced and shingles is no joke. My grandma had it bad last year and it left her blind in one eye, a bald spot on her head where the hair won't grow back. She had bouts of head pain where she just lay there and screamed. It was awful

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I believe they are not vaccinating against childhood chickenpox so much as the adult flare up of this virus into shingles - which is a terrible painful thing. "Anyone who has ever had chickenpox can develop shingles. Most adults in the United States had chickenpox when they were children, before the advent of the routine childhood vaccination that now protects against chickenpox." Valid actual scientic source - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/shingles/symptoms-causes/syc-20353054

Chicken-pox can still be dangerous - and hell-on-earth for many sufferers. Not fatal, but if I had a child I would wish to spare it the weeks of illness. Chicken pox isnt just like a cold - especially when you are too young to really remember having it. My brother and I both contracted it together - He was 4 and doesnt remember - I was 11 and do.

Chicken pox in youth can (CAN, not will) lead to shingles as an adult. I've known a few people who had shingles and it's terrible. My dad almost went blind.

Had chicken pox parties here too. Apparently the younger you caught it the less severe it would generally be. Parents wanted to get it over with asap when they were toddlers.

The only reason kids today get more is that they have developed more since the first ones were introduced. In the 1970's there were vaccinations for 7 diseases. 6 of them were comined as 2 seperate vaccines -MMR and DTP. In the mid 80's it was 8 diseases. With the development of protection against chicken pox in the mid 90's then Hepatitis A ,Rotavirus and some others by 2010 there were vaccines against 14 diseases (still 6 combined as 2). Not counting HPV.

If not for government funding and heavy subsidies, there would be no vaccines at all. There is NO PROFIT in making vaccines. If pharmaceutical companies really wanted to clean up, all they would have to do is quit making vaccines, buy hospitals with massive children's wings, and manufacture painkillers, anti-inflammatories and pain meds. ...///... Grow up, Lara.

I live the UK (free National Health Service) and they group them together quite a lot, but I don't know how that compares to the US.

I mean, I'd go with the CDC on this one, that's just me. Also: "Among the many anti-vaccine myths dutifully presented by fervent immunization opponents is the argument “Too Many, Too Soon.” It is often raised after all the other straw men about mercury, aluminum, autism, etc. have been knocked down. It falls in that category because it’s usually presented in the following way: “Okay, vaccines may work and may be safe, and may be effective in eradicating disease, but still my instinct tells me that Big Pharma/Big Government/Corrupt CDC/Uneducated Pediatricians are giving little babies too many vaccines all at once, and too soon for their little baby immune systems to handle.” There are variations on this theme, including “One Size Does Not Fit All” and “They Didn’t Give That Many Back In My Day." It can be an effective argument when presented to someone who is unclear or misinformed about the way vaccines and our immune systems work." https://www.immunizeusa.org/blog/2017/june/01/suh/

@aurora50 I have this happen a lot. It looks like it double-posts, but unless you reply to your own comment it won't actually post it. At least, if it's the same error I get. Try refreshing the page to make sure, I find the second one usually disappears. :)

ps...this is the second time a single reply of mine created double-posts...sorry, don't know what's causing that.

He's lurking under yet another username. After all his anti-gay snipes he's pretending to be gay and going under the name GayBar101. He was spotted on one of the topics - SHARKS! It was shark frenzy. Read his profile and yep, it was him.

What do you mean Diane

Not seen any of his comments for a couple of days since he started getting upvotes after creating a new account

Yessss! He finally WENT AWAY!!!!!!!!!

That is actually a really good theory!

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Finally. No more TJler

Every single child in the family - gone in 1 week. Who can be so stupid as to refuse immunisation diptheria-...17b04c.jpg

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Too far...

And you are also future proofing a generation against shingles as adults. If you don't have chicken pox, you don't get shingles as an adult.

I got chicken pox in 1974 - was 11 but remember being very ill, apparently I was delirious for a couple of days - just horrible. Think it must vary but would never wish it on anyone. Antivaxxers seem to wish diseases on their on their children - just so they can be smug when/if the kid survives and with no longterm effects. Feel sorry for the children when it is so needless.