Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My mother has this scar, when she was vaccinated on a reservation.
She also remembers they’d give you a sugar cube with a different vaccine on it at the time. She tried to get it multiple times.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
i think sugar cube was the polio vaccine, i believe they use that for polio virus.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Used. They don’t do oral polio vaccines anymore AFAIK.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Do they even vaccinate against polio anymore I’m pretty sure I’ve never had a polio vaccine and I am pretty sure it’s extinct isn’t it?
pyre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m no expert but at this point I think it’s a pretty safe bet that things come back if you stop vaccinating against it.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Polio has not been eradicated the way Smallpox has. There is no smallpox anywhere. There are Polio patients, relatively rare as they are.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Polio is not extinct. There is polio in India and Africa. Smallpox may be extinct, because of the vaccine, which causes that scar.
toxoplasma0gondii@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
In Germany its part of the multi vaccine with like 5 others.
Johandea@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
Yes, it’s recommended for every child. A total of four doses over five years.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
She agrees, it was the polio vaccine in the sugar cube. She was also unable to get a second cube, as the small white girl in the bright red coat was very distinctive and they told her to stop trying to get another cube.