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FirstLight

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2. okay...but let's not panic

Reply to Tax Man (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 03:42 AM

Apr 2012

I dunno, we have so many drugs to treat symptoms and shorten diseasae now than 40 or 50 yrs ago..., my parents generation had them all, measles, mumps, whooping cough...oh and chicken pox...and they are still kickin at 70+...they also ate eggs fresh from the farm and milk from the cow that THEY fed, so they knew what they ate ... how prosaic! how dangerous!

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Measles cases reached 15-year high in 2011: CDC [View all] Tax Man Apr 2012 OP

I had the measles during the summer when I was seven or eight... Rhiannon12866 Apr 2012 #1

okay...but let's not panic FirstLight Apr 2012 #2

I think that making light of the seriously COLGATE4 Apr 2012 #3

Maybe you'd like it better if you lived in Somalia. n/t Ian David Apr 2012 #6

So when your un-vaccinated kid infects a class room of kids... Javaman Apr 2012 #9

Vaccination rates below herd immunity longship Apr 2012 #4

+1 obamanut2012 Apr 2012 #8

+1. nt Javaman Apr 2012 #10

Thanks, ignorant anti-vaxxers alarimer Apr 2012 #5

The Jenny McCarthy Song Ian David Apr 2012 #7