The Internet Is Shutting Down Anti-Vaxxers One By One And It’s Too Entertaining To Read (22 Pics)

You will probably not die, but people with a weak immune system might, because in the Western world several old, almost eradicated deseases are coming back thanks to people who beliebe vaccinations are superfluous.

I can top you - I'm 42 and I only found recently that I had not had a single vaccination and my parents didn't think this was important information to impart (long story short: I have s**t parents). Needless to say, I'm booking myself in for my shots asap. The list of stupid diseased I can die from is keeping me up at night! I'm sure you should be able to get the small pox vaccination too, if you asked.

Fear not we still have vaccines and doctors. So you should be able to go get the vaccine. Assuming there is one. If there isn't one the. We can't blame anti-vac people.

This worried me too for the same reasons. I read this and it made me feel better :) https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/7004/ Basically the vaccine isn't available to the general public, it hasn't been since 1972. DOn't panic though, in the US here is enough in stock to vaccinate the entire country should there be a problem. I'm sure other countries keep up with it as well.

I'm fairly sure that they don't routinely vaccinate for this disease anymore. Be worth double checking of course.

You don't need a smallpox vaccination, it is eradicated in humans and isn't carried by any other species in the wild. Their are 2 samples secured in labs 1 in the CDC in America and 1 in Russia. You will never be exposed, and if you are they'd be releasing the stockpiles of vaccines straight away.

Smallpox was eradicated but 2 samples of the disease still exist. The U.S. Holds one, and Russia the other. Sleep tight. (and yes, that's verifiably the truth)

Smallpox can be called completely eradicated when all the humans that were alive when the last case was recorded have already passed. \viruses have a tendency to stay hidden sometimes. Even then there are labs who have the virus for study. A virus may also be in a frozen subject or who knows were( amber like the DNA in Jurassic Park). We should never risk this cause it should be extinct now

I don’t think I have that particular vaccine either. God help us!

I’m not vaccinated against smallpox, either, since that practice basically stopped in the late 70’s, early 80’s. My sister born in 1973 was vaccinated against it, but I (born in 1977) was not. I also wasn’t allowed by my parents to get chickenpox from my sister when she had it, since I was 19 months old and considered “too young” to risk exposure. Now I’m almost 41, and I’m *way* more worried about old or immune-impaired people with shingles or little kids with chickenpox. At my age, contracting chickenpox could actually kill me....

OMG! You can still get vaccinated against small pox before it's to late.

It doesn't mean it WILL come back. It just means it COULD, but if we are careful and don't believe this anti-vaxxer bullshit we might just keep ourselves safe.

It's not "coming back" as it was eradicated with the exception of two special, high-security laboratories in the world. After several years, a lot of doctors began to not require a "dead" disease to be vaccinated against anymore. The trouble is, if those few samples are stolen and used in germ warfare....that is where the danger mostly lies.

smallpox is eradicated. Don't worry. People tend to mistake chickenpox or monkeypox for smallpox. Smallpox has not come back.

Think about that for a moment... If they told you vaccination wasn't necessary then how are the anti vaxxers to blame for the small pox coming back? If it's wasn't necessary for you then why should it be necessary for others? I'm not sure you've really thought that through, have you?

They will vaccinate it when you go to an underdeveloped country where they have the disease. But your PCP can get it and give you the vaccine. It may come back to doing smallpox vaccines, because of people that aren’t vaccinated for it coming in torn he USA, or visitors etc. there are still cases of it, here and there but we don’t see it here in the USA. But.. if you are planning on traveling outside of the United States, I’d get informed three months in advance and get the needed vaccines for the diseases in the area you plan to visit. A small pox vaccine would be a mandatory thing, because it travels fast and would cause a huge epidemic. Millions would die. So, even the anti vaccine people, would be mandatorily required to be vaccinated for that.

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I don't believe there's an age cap on getting the smallpox vaccine. Have fun.

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There was a small breakout a few years ago in TX from our lovely neighbors coming to the US and bringing smallpox with them. It was contained, but it was near the beginning of the antivaccine trend.

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By stupid people, are you referring to your parents?

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You will have PLENTY of time to worry about it when you inevitably get sick...enjoy the couple of weeks you have left...don't worry.

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No - smallpox disease and death rates were ALWAYS much greater when vaccination occurred. Before the vax - there were never more than 2,000 dead per 2 year cycle in Britain. After the vaxxing - outbreaks started out having 14,000 dead per cycle, then 15,000 dead in the next cycle. Eventually there were 44,000 and 45,000 dying ONLY IN VACCINATED AREAS in the cycles. Sanitation cleaned up the problem. Look up Leicester and how 80,000 parents blocked city hall demanding a stop to smallpox vax - because it killed their children. When L- stopped mandatory vax - it was by far the lowest smallpox disease and death area in the country....

It looks like he broke the words himself at the end of a line instead of letting the program/platform do it, then it was copied and pasted into the mess we are now.

I couldn't even finish reading it because my internal narrator was screaming "WTF" every time there was a hyphen where one wasn't needed.

Damn, that's scary. I've never heard of someone having to have their eyes removed because of measles. That's awful. I'm sorry you and your friend had to go through that. I hope your friend lived and was able to have some quality of life. Thank God we now have those vaccines available for our children.

I had measles in 1962. I develop a complication, measles encephalitis, in which the virus gets into the brain. This can be very serious. I was lucky to survive. This was before the MMR vaccine. Around the same time I was sick the young daughter of author Roald Dahl died of the same condition. Antivaxxers are risking the lives of children.

It gets tiring how, even among supposedly progressive thinkers, vegans are still somehow acceptable targets for bashing and bullying. When I see a vegan acting like a d**k, I slam them for it. Like being atheist, the majority of vegans aren't elitist a******s out to wreck your life. Most of us generally keep it to ourselves until food or diet comes up, mostly because, even in perfectly relevant context, someone will start bullying or mocking us for it if we mention it (or, f**k forbid, try to spread facts to defeat the myths).

Polio...

Does not need to be that far back. Go talk to grandmothers with adult children who were born with the results of exposure to rubella whilst in-utero. This is why today pregnant women in most developed countries that do pre-natal screening checks, MMR immunity levels are tested. It is also why they recommend as part of pre-conception planning you have an MMR vaccine if your Rubella IgG is found to be low as the vaccine is cheap insurance against potentially fatal consequences. Also if you have not had a vaccine containing pertussis (whooping cough) recently and are pregnant, planning to be or will be in close contact with a newborn before they can be vaccinated go get a dTPa and protect the newborn during the first weeks when they cannot be vaccinated

I was annoyed by that myself at first, but I think it's possible that the original format of her/his response was limited in characters per line. So she put in the dashes, as you do when you run out of room when handwriting, to indicate that the word continues.