# Unimmunized infants-what to do?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimmunized-infants-what-to-do/612967>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 15, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimmunized-infants-what-to-do/612967 "2012-02-15T21:21:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimmunized-infants-what-to-do/612967/21 "2012-02-16T19:51:28Z")

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> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#):
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> I think that people who grew up with friends and siblings dying of these various things tend to be less stupid about it.

And I tend to think that their immunizations probably lapsed fifty years ago and haven’t been renewed.

Yes, people who touch my daughter get a special place on my shit list, but so do people who keep staring at her expectantly after she’s stopped smiling. I’m not going to chew them out or anything, but I’m not apologetic when she begins to cry.

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimmunized-infants-what-to-do/612967/22 "2012-02-16T20:15:12Z")

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I will cop to toe-touching. Sigh. I have had all my shots, though, and rarely bite. Babies are so luscious, especially since I’m not going to have any more poppin’ outta me.

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**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimmunized-infants-what-to-do/612967/23 "2012-02-16T20:33:11Z")

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> [@Mr.Excellent](#):
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> Slight hijack, but I don’t get why anyone would mess wtih a stranger’s infant at all.

I try not to mess with non-strangers’ babies either. All too often they’re sticky.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimmunized-infants-what-to-do/612967/24 "2012-02-16T21:03:36Z")

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> [@Motorgirl](#):
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> I try not to mess with non-strangers’ babies either. All too often they’re sticky.

Or stanky.

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**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unimmunized-infants-what-to-do/612967/25 "2012-02-17T18:40:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Furious\_Marmot]  
{snip} Nowadays, thanks to the tireless efforts of charlatans and morons, there are a whole lot more gnarly pathogens floating around, waiting to kill or cripple people. {snip}  
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This; plus, the folks who misuse antibiotics, thus contributing to many bacteria becoming (more) resistant to antibiotics.

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