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Meningitis shot required for
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/1/2012 3:56:01 PM |
| PHARR ? Jose Rivera vaguely remembers the last time he saw his brother, Tomas Rivera, three years ago. The two Pharr natives lived in Riverside, Calif., and attended different colleges but shared an apartment with three other students. Jose Rivera, now 28, said all five liked to party. ?It was the night before I came home (to Pharr) for summer break,? he recalled, ?and we stayed up most of the night drinking pretty hard.(Snip) Two weeks later, the Rivera family received a call from a hospital informing them that Tomas had contracted meningitis, a serious bacterial infection that claimed
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Thwarkmaster, 1/1/2012 4:04:50 PM?????(No. 8246221)
Indoctrination.
You will obey.
You will accept the will of the state.
Yes, we have many reasons for you to become comfortable with our benevolent care.
It's always for your own good.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Gloria, 1/1/2012 4:14:21 PM?????(No. 8246244)
My cousin died of meningitis when she was eight years old. She would have been 85 this year. In all those decades, only now do we have a vaccination against this disease?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ribicon, 1/1/2012 4:18:25 PM?????(No. 8246257)
Texans sure do seem to enjoy having government officials forcing them to do things, for their own good. Where's that mythical independent cowboy spirit? Notice the total disconnect between behavior described at beginning of article, and the quote in second-to-last paragraph of article (which filter forbids me from posting) and consequences of actions. See also self-inflicted AIDS/STD epidemics, and Gardasil vaccines. Solution? Government in every bedroom, and in every bottle of cheap booze.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Melody, 1/1/2012 4:34:06 PM?????(No. 8246286)
Americans are being protected to death. Are we ''endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights'' such as Liberty?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
cycloid, 1/1/2012 4:40:20 PM?????(No. 8246297)
In my >56 years of life I've known only 2 young adults who contracted meningitis. One was a college room mate, and the other a young professional mother and wife. Neither had boozy or other bad health habits. Both were smart chemical engineers. In both cases, nobody else contracted meningitis, event though both had intimate, monagamous relationships and others living with them (room mates, children). Both survived with no ill effects and prospered.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Cicatrix, 1/1/2012 5:11:08 PM?????(No. 8246349)
Not all meningitis is the same. The vaccine is for the worst type: meningococcal meningitis. People who get this, if they survive, do not come out unscathed. They often lose limbs, hearing, vision, etc. It is a horrible, preventable disease.
Viral meningitis, on the other hand, is largely mild and people who get it usually do fine.
Meningococcal meningitis outbreaks are more common in young adults living in close contact such as college students in dorms and military recruits in barracks. There is good reason to vaccinate high schoolers and college students
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mamafrog, 1/1/2012 5:15:56 PM?????(No. 8246362)
College is a voluntary activity, if you don't want to get the immunization, don't go to college. We lost two children and another lost four limbs to meningitis in Oklahoma about a year ago. Vaccines are wonderful things.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bulletthole, 1/1/2012 5:22:58 PM?????(No. 8246372)
We lost a beautiful daughter 11 years ago with this Meningitis. She was 34, a college grad and all she ever drank was maybe a glass of wine now and then. I don't know how she caught this horrible mess, but it took her life in just a few weeks. Please students, take the shot. I miss my daughter everyday of my life. You smile again, but never know complete joy after losing a child. Think about your parents and get in the shot line!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 1/1/2012 6:27:29 PM?????(No. 8246442)
#8 my deepest sympathies on the loss of your precious daughter. My first response to this is reject nanny statism. If I had lost my child, perhaps I too would certainly feel differently. God bless you and yours.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
maggie2u, 1/1/2012 6:33:45 PM?????(No. 8246449)
the summer of '82, my husband somehow managed to come down with viral meningitis. He spent several days in the hospital mainly because he threw up so much they had to keep him hydrated. It was scary times though.
My deepest sympathy poster #8, losing a child is the hardest burden to bear.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mullahgomer, 1/1/2012 7:01:13 PM?????(No. 8246474)
#8 you're so right about the complete joy thing. You have my sympathies and prayers. It was more than 20 years ago for me.
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