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jaguar · 06-19-2005, 11:19 AM

I'd had more vaccinations than most, I spend more and more time in relatively inhospitable (medically) locations so the list includes HepA, B, Typhoid, Polio, Japanese Encephalitis, Rabies amongst others (at my arms at times have looked like a junkie) and plenty of courses of various antimalarials. As well as all the usual childhood ones. Has it done me any harm? Not that I'm aware of. Has any of them saved my ass? Possibly, I'll never know. That's the killer (ha. ha.) There's a fair chance I'd have caught malaria, I've had a few friends that have and it's not pretty. At the end of the day it is a risk calculation. As far as I'm concerned I'd rather take that risk than die of something that was completely preventable.

I have a pretty bulletproof immune system, partly the result I think of exposure to less-than-fantastic sanitation on a semi-regular basis.

06-19-2005, 11:19 AM	#34
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	I'd had more vaccinations than most, I spend more and more time in relatively inhospitable (medically) locations so the list includes HepA, B, Typhoid, Polio, Japanese Encephalitis, Rabies amongst others (at my arms at times have looked like a junkie) and plenty of courses of various antimalarials. As well as all the usual childhood ones. Has it done me any harm? Not that I'm aware of. Has any of them saved my ass? Possibly, I'll never know. That's the killer (ha. ha.) There's a fair chance I'd have caught malaria, I've had a few friends that have and it's not pretty. At the end of the day it is a risk calculation. As far as I'm concerned I'd rather take that risk than die of something that was completely preventable. I have a pretty bulletproof immune system, partly the result I think of exposure to less-than-fantastic sanitation on a semi-regular basis. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain Last edited by jaguar; 06-19-2005 at 11:31 AM.