Re: Should the state be allowed to force little girls............
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Maybe details a little fuzzy, but you have to admit that kids today get more vaccines than kids 20-30 years ago. That was my point, the details don't really matter.
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No, the details really do matter.
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btw, I notice hepB was in infant vaccine list. there's very little reason for an infant to get a hepB vac.
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The HepB virus can be transmitted during birth. Kids (particularly kids in daycare) are swapping fluids all the frickin' time. From the article in wikipedia:
"In moderate prevalence areas, the disease is predominantly spread among children...only 5% of new-borns that acquire the infection from their mother at birth will clear the infection. Of those infected between the age of one to six, 70% will clear the infection. When the infection is not cleared, one becomes a chronic carrier of the virus."
I'd say there are reasons to give it to children.
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