To vaccinate or not to vaccinate that should not be a question,

I had them on my side and back last summer. Still have a lot of nerve pain on my side. I asked the doctor about getting the shot now and he said I should get it as you can have the shingles more than once. I will be getting it soon.
 

It is interesting the largest group of the out break comes from a relatively wealthy very liberal part of Cal. Not wanting to get into irony, but it would seem that what's good for the whole may not be good for some of the few.

In the past when vaccinations became the marvel of science, the educational level of the mass of the population that was a candidate for its use was large. In short the powers that were dictated the folks were to dumb to know what was good for them. It seems that level has raised, if someone now says, "we are here from the government to help you" they know enough to run.

after working in medicine for 35 years, "when someone tells me that some disease is eradicated", I take 3 steps back and mask up.
 
I don't really disagree, but when I had a job as a cashier one of the customers had a child who had a vaccine became wickedly ill, was hospitalized, and died a few days later. I wouldn't want to argue the point with them. The measles outbreak, and how torn these parents must be, bears heavy upon my mind.
 

My brother in law got the shingles shot and got the shingles a week later! I never get the vaccines . They either make me incredibley sick or I just don't trust them. I had one flew shot in my life and NEVER got another after getting so so so sick from it! And seeing how the measles vaccine made so many ill and the other things that happened to people like being paralyzed or brain damaged.....I would rather take a chance on the measles itself. I don't trust the government anymore ..... or the pharmaceutical companies. How can our immune systems ever work right if we have to get a shot/vaccine for every thing that happens.
 
ugh my friend just got over shingles and her was in her head as well as all around her eyes. And as well as a spot on her back. They said it only stays in one place , one side or the other, but my mom had them all around her front to the back as well . I guess it is all on how you feel about this stuff. It always takes one little thing to trigger a disease. We just don't know what it is. Just like with cancer . (I despise the word itself let alone the disease) They said we all have the whatever it is just something to trigger it in action. Some people can smoke all their lives and be healthy , but someone else cannot you know what I mean?
 
I never had chickenpox so I'll never get shingles. The point is moot for me, but as much as I fear vaccines for myself, I'm an adult and free to make these decisions.

Children, however, do need to be immunized against Measles before entering school which is what this thread was originally about.
 
My understanding of what the vaccination does is that vaccines work by preparing the body to fight illness.
Each immunization contains either a dead or a weakened germ (or parts of it) that causes a particular disease.
The body practices fighting the disease by making antibodies that recognize specific parts of that germ.
This permanent or longstanding response means that if someone is ever exposed to the actual disease,
the antibodies are already in place and the body knows how to combat it and the person doesn't get sick.
They build up your immunity..this is what I was told whether its right or wrong I am not educated enough in this
field to know which it is so I just accept this , I had Diptheria as a child and it left me hearing impaired and my brother also got
polio which effected his legs, he only had a mild form but enough to give him a permanent limp, we were not immunized and the children
down the road were, they never were ill like my brother and I were.. but this will always be an ongoing problem too many for and againsts..
 
Vaccines have been proven to work for the majority, I will get those that pertain to me, I'm sure there are cases of adverse affects, but I think the odds are in my favor to take the vaccines.
 

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