First Measles death in Texas - Feb, 2025, and now in other parts of the US

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I mean, they give the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, because there’s a small risk the newborn was exposed during delivery, and this protects them. But there was still a lot of pushback to giving every baby a vaccine that prevents a disease that’s mostly already by sex and drugs.

I think the medical establishment plays up that it’s cheaper to vaccinate than to test the moms, to keep “your child might have sex!” out of the conversation. But it still gets brought up.

(That’s one of the vaccines that was never really recommended to my cohort that i sought out. I see that now “CDC recommends it for almost everyone”, but i asked for it when they were only recommending it for babies and people with known higher risk.)

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I got the HAV and HBV series because I worked in hospitals.

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I got it because i wanted both and it was really convenient to get them at the same time.

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Yup, also a bonus.

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The cervical cancer one did a good enough job for me that I never considered that the issue was actually contracting HPV. I similarly don’t think about it as a way to wind up with leukemia.

I just assumed the vaccine has secondary effects against other dangers.