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> compared with just 4% of Americans over age 65 I.e. people who remember life without vaccines.
by lliamander 7y ago
> compared with just 4% of Americans over age 65
I.e. people who remember life without vaccines.
- jpollock 7y agoMy great grandmother lived through the last smallpox outbreak in Canada, where their boarder caught it and she had to be quarantined. My grandmother told us about how she come back to school after summer vacation and found out about friends that died from measles. I had a vice principal who had polio as a child. None of those are around now, although measles is making a run for it.
- bjoli 7y agoThere are still loads of men around that have decreased fertility or even infertilitt due to mumps. Without ever asking around I know at least three men that had fertility problems, probably due to severe orchitis after mumps. In Sweden they included mumps in the vaccination programme 1975ish, which probably means the USA got it sometime during the 60s. That means you have probably all met someone that had testicle or pancreas inflammation due to mumps. Both of them very very painful.