burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Yeah, we saw enough polio victims back then to know that the vaccine was pretty special and very important.

dragonlady9947

About five years ago, I woke up and could not breath-gasping for air. No symptoms of anything. Headed over to urgent care-ended up in the hospital ICU for three days with medical staff wearing hazmat suits. They let me go home with oxygen machine running 24 hours/day and I could not work for six weeks. I had the flu which had turned into viral pneumonia and viral sepsis. This was in February-not able to walk a distance until June. 5 years later I have asthma and 2 different inhalers. Doctors orders: I have to have a flu shot every year and got pneumonia and shingles too. I never actually felt ‘sick’ The doctors told me that the flu attacks the weakest part of your body. The inoculations help save my life. Antivaxers are nuts and a danger to society.

pshane

Curious, - Why this article on a Photography Forum? - (altho the info is appreciated, but still - - )

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

Iron Lungs were a familiar object to everyone that watched TV or read the Paper. Polio was the thing we feared the most, even at the age of 6 I was aware of it's danger and remember the news of the Vaccine and the rush to immunize.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

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rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

It is in the "Chit Chat Section".

dragonlady9947

General chat session. Get know each other a little differently.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

👍👍 Yes indeed!

gsmith051 Loc: Fairfield Glade, TN

theoldman

Have I noticed a bias on the forum in favor of reason, knowledge, evidence, and intelligence? Maybe it hints that photographers are good breeding stock. :)

SMPhotography Loc: Pawleys Island, SC

As a retired clinical microbiologist, the introduction of antibiotics is clearly the single greatest medical discovery. Perhaps the second greatest is the science of blood typing and red cell antigen identification in blood banking. Both have saved an uncountable number of lives. Vaccinations would come in third on my list.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

My father was a microbiologist also, and my mother ran several blood banks in her career. Unfortunately, they are both gone, or I’d ask them their opinions. Regardless, vaccines are pretty high up the list, and finding some silly reason to avoid them I believe they would feel is both uninformed and just plain stupid. I think it will unfortunately take awhile to develop and test a vaccine for this virus, and if it mutates regularly, like influenza, it may become very difficult.

On a personal note, I spent lots of nights in the early 50s, (when they were called bacteriologists) watching my father make blood agar plates and plant them with a flamed platinum loop, and then placing tabs of various antibiotics on the plate for sensitivity studies before placing them in an incubator with a lit candle inside (to remove the oxygen for anaerobic bacteria). That must seem incredibly crude now. My mother taught me how to type and cross-match blood during those long nights when she was on call, sleeping on a cot next to the VA bloodbank. How times have changed... please pardon the reminiscence.

Paul Diamond Loc: Atlanta, GA, USA

I'm sorry. To cut off the blood supply to her brain, all she has to do is sit down!

sueyeisert Loc: New Jersey

Absolutely correct!

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Wow - some people will believe anything they are fed. Really - the CDC, WHO, and all the scientists working on this can't tell a virus from a bacterium? It would be hilarious if these people weren't actually walking among us.