I would think they are more likely to consult authoritative references, “look it up”.
One ran out to me on the parking lot and apologized that she could not prescribe my tramadol, the weakest opiate in existence.
My apologies if you took minor offense to my minor offense.
No minor offense here. Or major. Or any, really.
I love your little mousie avatar. Walk softly, etc.
My sensitivity to knowledge or lack of same found in various medical personnel has a long and troubling history.
On the general point about vaccines, I was taken to West Africa in the late 1940s when I was four years old. I recall having a number of vaccinations over a period of days. Some were quite painful
As far as I can research, it seems likely that I was probably vaccinated against: Smallpox, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Whooping Cough, Typhoid, Yellow Fever and Cholera. There was also something called Black Water Fever which was a complication of malaria and often fatal. I don’t believe there was a vaccine for that.
While living there we were given daily quinine tablets (Adults got theirs as tonic with gin) and salt tablets which my sister and I used to throw out as they were too big to swallow and tasted disgusting.
I love them. I’m a nervous nellie alot, and I just lose my anxiety when they are in attendance.
PAs are my next favorite.
That is Rat from Pearls Before Swine.
Never heard of that. But just looked it up. I like the look of it!
Next he’ll be recommending bird flu parties to make sure all the chickens get exposed at once.
They vary. Some (including the measles vaccine) are generally good for life. Others, like the whooping cough vaccine, provide protection that wanes over time. Even though I’ve had a few doses of that vaccine and also a case of whooping cough, I’m told that if i have grandchildren I’ll need to get a booster.
I like the way Rat deals with problems.
I’ll have to start reading that. 
There is measles immune globulin, for people who had a high possibility of exposure but cannot be immunized right then. It can even be given during pregnancy.
Most noteworthy take from the parents of the dead child:
"“It was her time on Earth,” the translator said of the deceased child. “They believe that she’s better off where she is now versus all the negativity and all the stuff going on. They think she was too good for this earth.”
Yep, better to be dead than hear stuff about how her parents failed her.
And really, why all the fuss? Four out of their five kids weren’t killed by measles. An 80% survival rate isn’t half bad!
Yeah, and lifetime deafness and mental disability is normal these days for kids anyway what with them on their phones and earbuds blasting music at high volume, right?
Not like we’ll notice the extra cases measles can cause.
I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed, but I am saying no more than 10 or 20 million dead. Tops.
Mr. President! We must not allow an anti-vax gap!
I went to the Congo in 1961 when I was 9, almost 10, and same thing. They spaced mine out over some weeks, at least. Most of them were okay, but some made me sick. I was out of school more than I was in that fall.
We got quinine also. Never got sick the 9 months I was there.
They may have been spaced out more - it was a long time ago.
We were in Sierra Leone for seven years apart from leave. We didn’t suffer any ill effects. I always tell people what a great place it was to be a child.
As of now, it’s unclear if the cases are connected to the mushrooming outbreak that began in West Texas.
They are certainly logically and politically connected, even if no specific infected Texas individual somehow gave it directly to a Kansas individual.
Stupid is far more contagious than is measles. Has more transmission vectors too.
My son’s first doctor was a GP who accepted infants (and was so good, I wouldn’t have taken a pediatrician for love or money)-- it happened that way because none of the pediatricians in town took our insurance, which was the military Tri-care in the middle of OIF. But whatever.
She wasn’t my doctor, but when I clearly had pink-eye, that I had picked up at his preschool (where I worked), and was in a lot of pain, and was clearly suffering, at his appointment when I mentioned our next stop was the Urgent Care clinic, and I hoped he didn’t pick up something, she said she could write me something for the pink-eye.
So there could have been an issue of pediatrician over GP as well.