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In 1956, when I was 6, my father got stationed in Morocco. panader0 Feb 2019 #1
Wow! When I was in the USAF, in 1965-69, MineralMan Feb 2019 #3
My dad was USAF too. panader0 Feb 2019 #5
Yes, if he was sent to Morocco. MineralMan Feb 2019 #6
aaaack... typhus shot.. I thought they had killed my arm SoCalDem Feb 2019 #70
No fun! MineralMan Feb 2019 #72
In 62 some of us in grad school went to Germany. We got a ton of vaccines. V sore arm! bobbieinok Feb 2019 #9
That's how I found out I was allergic to eggs. OnlinePoker Feb 2019 #15
Regarding plague, I visited Badlands National Park. There are Prairie Dog "villages." 3Hotdogs Feb 2019 #32
Interesting! Basement Beat Feb 2019 #52
Yes. Plague is endemic in burrowing rodents in many places. MineralMan Feb 2019 #55
oh crap we did that!!! well, i sat in the car but my car mates when out.. samnsara Feb 2019 #64
Why service personnel are walking dart boards for the medics. sarge43 Feb 2019 #44
As a young mom snowybirdie Feb 2019 #2
That, too. MineralMan Feb 2019 #4
My first polio vaccine was a sugar cube. Ilsa Feb 2019 #7
I was among the first to get the new vaccine in 1957. MineralMan Feb 2019 #8
They have switched back to the shot because the sugar cube used a live virus pnwmom Feb 2019 #13
Those pix look very much like my elementary school when the shot clinic was held... Hekate Feb 2019 #45
Yup. That scene was repeated everywhere. MineralMan Feb 2019 #47
Your memory of the year is slightly off. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #46
Could be. It could have been when I was in fifth grade in 1955. MineralMan Feb 2019 #48
I remember getting the shot in 1954 or 55. dhol82 Feb 2019 #77
Yes. I think I've disremembered my age. MineralMan Feb 2019 #78
I got the shot one year, sugar cube the next time catrose Feb 2019 #82
cube here, too Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2019 #23
The scar likely from a smallpox vaccination, Ilsa Feb 2019 #34
must have been coincidence Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2019 #43
The only scar I have from shots is from the smallpox vaccine dflprincess Feb 2019 #37
The only vaccination that leaves a scar is the smallpox one. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #49
Almost died from the mumps - I was a toddler. I have a scar on my neck from the draining tubes. AnotherMother4Peace Feb 2019 #10
In the early 60s curlyred Feb 2019 #11
Me, neither. Scarsdale Feb 2019 #17
All 5 of us got all our vaccinations, no questions asked, and only 1 of us died the day after. pnwmom Feb 2019 #56
The anti-vaccination movement grew out of the fact that there were rare cases pnwmom Feb 2019 #21
I grew up in the shadow of the old polio terror, but the other diseases were expected and 'normal' Chemisse Feb 2019 #12
I don't understand how anyone can not be worried about any childhood illness csziggy Feb 2019 #26
While all the parents knew about the dangers of polio, the others were more uncommon Chemisse Feb 2019 #71
"Childhood diseases" were never trivial -- they just winnowed out children into the graveyard. Hekate Feb 2019 #59
I guess the only way is for the resurgence of disease among the unvaccinated, Chemisse Feb 2019 #73
So true! colorado_ufo Feb 2019 #14
That's what I remember about the measles, too. MineralMan Feb 2019 #19
You just reminded me of the "dark room, shades down" luvtheGWN Feb 2019 #27
I had measles and chicken pox treestar Feb 2019 #16
I got Red Measles, German Measles (rubella) and Chicken Pox TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #42
That may be how it became treestar Feb 2019 #57
Yes, beyond toddlerhood TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #58
my son likely became sterile from mumps Brainstormy Feb 2019 #86
Glad he adopted TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #88
Meanwhile, the CIA set the polio eradication efforts back trying to find Bin Laden in Pakistan OnlinePoker Feb 2019 #18
I remember standing in line in 3rd grade Peacetrain Feb 2019 #20
That's why bdamomma Feb 2019 #22
Tuberculosis is still around, and it has resistance to MineralMan Feb 2019 #24
Frightening that this anti-vax ideology is a thing. This isn't some prehistorical thing where ck4829 Feb 2019 #25
My "Popeye" polio shot in my right benld74 Feb 2019 #28
Now that I'm medicare age I get lots of vaccines. greymattermom Feb 2019 #29
A lot of people do turn those shots down. MineralMan Feb 2019 #30
My father born well before the vaccine ... CatMor Feb 2019 #31
I had Everything when I was a kid montanacowboy Feb 2019 #33
I had a friend whose parents were disabled by polio Danmel Feb 2019 #35
I am 75. I remember the same things Mineral Man remembers appleannie1943 Feb 2019 #36
Yes. People who haven't seen kids with those illnesses MineralMan Feb 2019 #40
When my husband and I showed the kids our ginnyinWI Feb 2019 #65
I think that's the big problem happybird Feb 2019 #79
My mother made them stab my leg too nitpicker Feb 2019 #85
I agree 100% however you also recognize Hamlette Feb 2019 #38
The risks of taking that cute baby in your car to the supermarket MineralMan Feb 2019 #41
there you go, being rational again Hamlette Feb 2019 #89
I can't help myself, I guess. MineralMan Feb 2019 #90
me too Hamlette Feb 2019 #91
If you agree 100%, please don't add 'Yes, but...' Aristus Feb 2019 #61
Kick Demovictory9 Feb 2019 #39
K&R MustLoveBeagles Feb 2019 #50
The really sad thing to me is it is going to take a couple cases of history repeating itself appleannie1943 Feb 2019 #51
The current generation of young parents don't remember MineralMan Feb 2019 #53
It's going to take an epidemic to truly discredit the anti-vax movement, but they won't suffer... ck4829 Feb 2019 #75
Same here. No no vaccines for most of those. MuseRider Feb 2019 #54
I had measles and chickenpox but not mumps Gothmog Feb 2019 #60
Thank you for posting this, MineralMan. Aristus Feb 2019 #62
Like every kid, I hated shots. MineralMan Feb 2019 #68
i remember lining up at the local high school to get a sugar cube with a polio vaccine.. samnsara Feb 2019 #63
mom had polio and it affected her right foot gopiscrap Feb 2019 #66
Yes. People with kids today never experienced those things. MineralMan Feb 2019 #69
Born in '57, I got all my shots. MicaelS Feb 2019 #67
Born in 1946........ woody44 Feb 2019 #74
Thanks for sharing that. MineralMan Feb 2019 #76
My grandfather survived polio in the hills of West Virginia Buckeyeblue Feb 2019 #80
I was a little younger Bettie Feb 2019 #81
Same here customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #83
My story geralmar Feb 2019 #84
Iron lungs! I think I read last year that the last person still MineralMan Feb 2019 #87
Polio is a horrible disease. milestogo Feb 2019 #92
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