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If you are living anywhere it's worth getting vaccines for hepatitis A and B.
by thorin1 8y ago
If you are living anywhere it's worth getting vaccines for hepatitis A and B.
- HarryHirsch 8y agoHep A is a waterborne disease. If you live somewhere with proper sanitation and don't have contact with sewage you are at low risk and the funds for the vaccine are better directed elsewhere.
- gaustin 8y agoFor about $100 every 10 years, I'd rather be safer than sorry.
- HarryHirsch 8y agoThat's entirely your choice. But the British NHS says that the taxpayer won't pick up the bill unless you have chronic liver problems.
- loeg 8y agoAt $10/year I'm not sure why it would matter one way or the other whether a health insurance program picks up the tab or not.
- mlindner 8y agoSan Francisco residents have extra contact with sewage than the normal person because the feces and urine that are everywhere.
- subcosmos 8y agoNot sure why you were downvoted. This is absolutely correct and why the city is paying for street cleaning in the areas most affected, in line with the efforts of the City of San Diego in their downtown areas.
- kingnothing 8y agoAre the street sweepers in SF effective at actually sanitizing the urine and feces or are they really aerating the excrement so any diseases contained within are more easily transmitted to passersby? I'm guessing the latter.
- black-tea 8y agoWhy is there faeces and urine everywhere?
- loeg 8y agoLack of public toilets, and a lot of people.
- mifreewil 8y agoLarge homeless population.
- loeg 8y agoand a lack of public toilets. People are people — we generally would rather go to the bathroom in private if it's an option. Homeless people don't shit in the street because it's their first choice.
- anonuser123456 8y agoYou can thank Richard Stallman and the toilet communism brigade. https://stallman.org/pay-toilets.html https://stallman.org/pay-toilets.html
- loeg 8y agoCan I? How much do you think someone who shits in the street today is willing or can afford to pay for private toilet infrastructure? I disagree with RMS about a lot of things, but I don't see how this would be solved without public spending.
- mifreewil 8y agoGod, SF is so overrated.
- Herodotus38 8y agoHepA is more accurately transmitted via what's called the "oral-fecal route". If you eat food prepared by other people, people who may not be completely diligent in washing their hands, it's worth getting vaccinated. There's a large outbreak in Los Angeles currently. https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hav/afaq.htm#statistics https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hav/afaq.htm#statistics I agree that it's a low risk disease but disagree that funds would be better spent elsewhere as it is a cheap vaccine. Most people here probably were already vaccinated as a baby or had it as a child without obvious symptoms. If you get it as an adult it can make you quite sick and put you out of commission for a few days but rarely kills people, unless you have chronic liver disease already for another reason. It's the cirrhotics who suddenly get exposed for the first time as an adult who wind up with fulminant liver failure and die.