Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket.
Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket.
Same. Both my mother and my uncle liked to show off their polio vaccine scar. They were proud of it. I’m really glad they’re not like that anymore, but I absolutely am extremely thankful for the wide variety of vaccines available now.
*smallpox
Smallpox was the one that left a scar. But yeah. I’m like, “Gimme all the vaccines!”
the only time I was ever hesitant about a vaccine was the smallpox vaccine that they brought out just as I was enlisting. It was widly reported that it was risky to take, as it contained actual virus, rather than just the recognition bits.
In retrospect, I have no idea if the reporting was accurate, misinformed, or fearmongering. But at the time, it worried me.
The Navy (the German one though) is the only time I’ve ever had a bad reaction on a vaccine. Granted they just topped of every vaccine you need, regardless if you still had protection, plus it was a multi-desease vaccine and the flue one is what got me - likely because I’ve just never really got the flu
We (Marines floating in a Navy ship) got those shots after being shown a power point on ship. It showed pics on someone that scratched the scab and got his eye infected with small pox. Everyone was scared about having their scab fall off and treated it like an extreme biohazard.
Probably better to be over cautious though.