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A friend of mine is mostly blind and partly deaf, because her mom had measles when she was pregnant. Apparently they were super worried my friend would be way worse off than that, but though she's got lots of health problems, luckily her brain is fine.
That sounds more like German measles than regular measles. There was a German measles epidemic in 1964, and just about every deaf school in the country had a much bigger class of kids born in 64-65 than they usually had.
smonster, what's the flu that's running around here? I'm ridiculously sick again and I'm wondering what's going on.
That sounds more like German measles than regular measles. There was a German measles epidemic in 1964, and just about every deaf school in the country had a much bigger class of kids born in 64-65 than they usually had.
I think it was, actually, though this was in 1977.
Family drama today, yay?
Jessie, vaccines save lies. Period. Fact. Do you know anyone who's had polio? Do you know anyone who's had scarlet fever? Because I don't. We've forgotten how heart-breaking and deadly those diseases are, because no one gets them any more. Because vaccines.
Scarlet fever is group A strep with a specific presentation. Thanks to antibiotics, it's no longer the health issue it once was, but it hasn't vanished. Unfortunately, there's at least one resistant strain out there, which is terrifying. There is no vaccine for it (there are for some bacterial infections, like pertussis, but not for this one).
Otherwise, you tell 'em!
Also, my sister had it!
I don't think I ever did. Just bog standard strep. A lot. A lot a lot. Annoyingly often.
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Hey. Miss y'all. I'm well over a month behind in this thread. Over 900 posts. I gave up. So I skipped to the end. Work is busy, but not bad busy, just normal busy. But cuts into free time for reading here.
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Had a second round of the NSB procedure on Friday. It was a little worse off. Still a bit of pain. But still, NSB.
My mom had scarlet fever. She told us that she almost died and her hair changed from curly to straight (is the latter really a thing?).
I got a bunch of boosters in '08, along with some tropics-specific shots. I had to stagger them over three visits and my arm still hurt like the dickens. I never considered not getting them, though. Avoiding pertussis: all the cool kids are doing it.
I had scarlet fever but, thanks to penicillin, it wasn't a huge health crisis.
I went to the coffe shop for the first time in over a month because I was avoiding that guy who I mentioned who seems too eager to be my friend. And of course he shows up as I'm waiting for my coffee. However, he ignored me so maybe he got the hint?