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Re: A vaccine to save lives --> Let's take stock From: Meenan, Anna (annam@uic.edu) Tue Feb 6 16:20:46 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: A vaccine to save lives" Previous message: Meenan, Anna: "Re: A Vaccine to Save Women’s Lives" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: A vaccine to save lives --> Let's take stock" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: A vaccine to save lives --> Let's take stock" Dr. Joe, most of the things on your list have either been around for quite awhile before they were mandated for kids, or have never been mandated for kids. I was never real keen on the idea of giving hepB vaccine to babies for pretty much the same reasons I'm against mandating HPV vaccine for 9-year-olds, though you could make a marginally better case for HepB in childhood because it's transmissible via biting and blood exposure that could potentially occur in a primary grade classroom setting. Even so, that one was also around for awhile before they started giving it to babies. Anna Meenan, MD > >Okay, so since we're at it, and not all of us have kids in the right >age groups now (or yet or whatever), let's make a list of stuff we >do to our "children" and why (and by "children" I mean any kid who's >young enough to be "in our power," so that means probably up to age >18): > >1) MMR, DPT, Polio, Varicella vaccines -- for "childhood" diseases >and other epidemics > >2) Hepatitis B vaccine -- for sexually transmitted illness (?) > >3) Gardasil (HPV vaccine) -- for sexually transmitted viral illness >--> cervical cancer > >4) Meningicoccal vaccine -- for college aged kids/military (?) > >5) Influenza -- particularly for susceptible individuals for "flu" > >6) OCPs (including "morning after" pills) -- for pregnancy > >7) abortion -- for pregnancy > >8) Rotavirus -- who gets that? > >9) antibiotics -- GC, Syphilis, Chlamydia > >10) what am I missing? Y'all fill in some more. > >Any comments? Additions? Conclusory statements without factual rationale? LOL > >Joe P. > >"Little known medical fact: >Chuck Norris invented the Caesarean section when he >roundhouse-kicked his way out of his mother's womb." > Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: A vaccine to save lives" Previous message: Meenan, Anna: "Re: A Vaccine to Save Women’s Lives" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: A vaccine to save lives --> Let's take stock" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: A vaccine to save lives --> Let's take stock"

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