In 2019 the local university required me to get a MMR booster when I enrolled in a class because my childhood vaccination(s) done in the late 60s/early 70s didn’t meet current standards.
(Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional, but it seemed like a good idea at the time, and even more so considering what has happened since.)
I think the take-home is that if you feel you may be in a higher risk situation, get the shot. “Overvaxxed” is not a thing, even though the antivaxxers love to throw that around. Now, insurance coverage may be a different matter, and I have no idea how they do the math. But here, if someone asked for the shot, I would give it.
Same, got MMR in (I think?) jr high due to “waning immunity.” This would have been mid-70’s or so. A whole cohort that got their shot at under 12 mos had to revaccinate.
Through concerted deworming efforts and improved hygiene, the worms were largely flushed out over the subsequent decades. But as one medical editorial put it in 2017: We still got 'em. That year, a study detected genetic traces of N. americanus in the stool of more than a third of people tested in an impoverished community in Lowndes County, Alabama. In Lowndes, approximately 50 percent of households have failing or no sewage systems.
Just pointing out that ivermectin does, really and for true, have legitimate medical indications. In case you were wondering.
A Republican lawmaker in Missouri has introduced legislation to create a registry of pregnant women who are “at risk” of having an abortion – a proposal the bill’s author characterized as an “eHarmony for babies” that could also help match adoptive parents with babies.
Thanks!! I’ll talk to my GI doc about my case. I suspect I should get one due to being on immunosuppressants.