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Challenge #02169-E340: Local Womens' Controversy Club

"As Chairman, I'd like to call to order this 1,357th meeting of the local 'Responsible Parenting' committee." -- Anon Guest

"Daisy... It's the coffee and cake meet."

"I want it to feel more official," objected Daisy. "It's about vaccination."

Five women in the room all rolled their eyes. "I thought we weren't going to bring up controversial topics at these," objected Claire.

"What's controversial about protecting your kids?" asked Julie.

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geekhyena: npr: Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.But...

geekhyena:

npr:

Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.

But something else happened.

Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.

“So it’s really been a mystery — why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,” says Michael Mina, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a

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last-snowfall:gehayi:or a adinfinitumxx:appropriately-inappropriate:doyouthinkaboutme:memeguy-com:years later House is still as relevant as...

last-snowfall:

gehayi:

or a adinfinitumxx:

appropriately-inappropriate:

doyouthinkaboutme:

memeguy-com:

years later House is still as relevant as he ever was

I wasn’t vaccinated and never got sick so

And I swam and didn’t drown.

Anecdotes aren’t evidence. The reason YOU specifically didn’t get sick is because of something called Mass Immunity.

That means that since everyone ELSE is vaccinated (you’re welcome), there’s nowhere for the virus to establish a hold.
That mass immunity is the only thing

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Fun vaccination fact:

omgthatdress:

cwnerd12:

It’s not unusual for large, older cemeteries to have a special “babyland“ section dedicated just to infants and young children.

If you spend any time doing historical research involving cemeteries, you’ll notice that child graves were quite common until about the 1960s, when vaccines for Measles, Polio, Mumps, and Rubella were invented.

Autism isn’t the worst thing that can happen to your kids, Babyland is.

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currentsinbiology: Mayo Clinic trial: Massive dose of measles vaccine wipes out cancer Stacy Erholtz was out of conventional treatment...

currentsinbiology:

Mayo Clinic trial: Massive dose of measles vaccine wipes out cancer

Stacy Erholtz was out of conventional treatment options for blood cancer last June when she underwent an experimental trial at the Mayo Clinic that injected her with enough measles vaccine to inoculate 10 million people.

The cancer, which had spread widely through her body, went into complete remission and was undetectable in Erholtz’s body after just one dose of the measles vaccine, which has an uncanny affinity for certain

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nprglobalhealth: Last Person To Get Smallpox Dedicated His Life To Ending Polio So far, the human race has eliminated just one disease in...

nprglobalhealth:

Last Person To Get Smallpox Dedicated His Life To Ending Polio

So far, the human race has eliminated just one disease in history: smallpox. But it’s on the cusp of adding a second virus — polio — to that list.

One special man in Somalia was at the battlefront of both eradication efforts. He died unexpectedly last week at age 59 of a sudden illness.

Ali Maow Maalin was the last member of the general public to catch smallpox — worldwide. And he

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