Dr. Howard Forman on the purpose of vaccines.

[Tomconroy]

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Good question Doc!

[blogslug]

1. A vaccine is not a force field

It is not a cure. Vaccines allow your system to neutralize diseases not deflect them as if you were wearing armor.

[Tomconroy]

2. Yup. It doesn't prevent infection. It only works once

someone is infected. Very basic.

[area51]

3. k&r

Looking forward to Dr. Peter Hotez's book next year, Antiscience Kills. Plos article on pseudoscience.

[scarletlib]

4. My daughter was vaccinated for all childhood diseases .

She woke up one morning with a mild rash and not feeling good. Hubby took her to family doctor. Diagnosis was measles.
I was shocked. Told my husband that couldn’t be right, so I called the Doctor. I said you gave her the shots. How could she have measles.

He said shots don’t protect everyone but her case would be mild. She stayed indoors with grandmother for about a week during the day.

I checked all around the neighborhood etc. She was the only case of measles I could find.

[Tomconroy]

5. Only symptomatic case.

[scarletlib]

7. Correct.

[Mariana]

10. No vaccine is 100% effective.

I also had measles even though I'd been vaccinated and so did one of my classmates, but our little epidemic stopped there. They traced it back to an unvaccinated visitor from another state.

[scarletlib]

11. I learned that when this happened. However, I trust science and get all needed vaccines.

Better to have protection even if not 100% guaranteed than to get diseases.

[Mariana]

12. Absolutely.

Supposedly, my case of measles was mild. If that was mild, I sure don't want to know what a severe case or even a normal case feels like.

[Raftergirl]

6. My son got chicken pox after being vaccinated.

He was in first grade (29 yrs now,) He only had one pox on the palm of his hand.

The vaccine did its job.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Huge swath of our society are very scientifically illiterate...nt

[Tomconroy]

9. 3 years in and this stuff still gets repeated here. Unbelievable.