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I am confused... Everyone I know has a complete vaccination transcript going back to birth. I have passed through 3 different national systems (one of them bein
by krastanov 8y ago
I am confused... Everyone I know has a complete vaccination transcript going back to birth. I have passed through 3 different national systems (one of them being the US, where the records are not kept at a national level), and all these places have records up to the time I left them. I did not do anything special for that - it was almost automatic, except for once when I had to pay for a cheap language translation.
- ghaff 8y agoI know I’m up to date and more with all sorts of vaccinations like Yellow Fever and boosters in adulthood. But I’m not sure how much I could prove with documents in hand (basically whatever is in my WHO booklet ). But that’s very incomplete, primary care may have some others, but childhood records are long gone with a doubtless long dead pediatrician. This is in the US. ADDED: So, no, as someone born 1960ish I would probably have to get a test to prove I was vaccinated against all the standard diseases.
- paulgb 8y agoHave you transferred doctors within the US? I think that's where the chain breaks down, since as you mention there is no national system.
- finaliteration 8y agoNot only that, but a lot of doctors only keep records for so long. We recently had a measles outbreak in my area and I was trying to figure out if I had been vaccinated or not. My childhood doctor had destroyed the records after ten years and my parents had zero paperwork. I ended up just getting a round of the vaccine to be safe.