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Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:18:16 +0100, "riverman"
>wrote:
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>>What an idiotic and academically wasteful argument.
>
>Riverman (and Claude),
>
>do your sums. Estimate the likelihood of side effects. Compare
>it of the likelihood of contracting yellow fever. Both can kill.
Speaking for myself, I did.
I balanced the cost of the vaccination, which in my case was zero
as it was covered by insurance, and the possibility of adverse side
effects from the vaccination against both the likelihood of contracting
yellow fever and the possibility of encountering some sort of bureaucratic
snarl at an inconvienient moment due to the lack of the vaccination doco
and decided to have it. I _did_ discuss the possibilities of adverse
reactions to the various vaccines with my physician before I had any
shots.
If I had it to do over again I would not have had the first Hepatitis A&B,
Diptheria/Tetanus, Typhoid, first Japanese Encephalitis, and YF shots all
at the same time. :^). There was a time factor involved, though.
It took me a couple of days for my immune system to recover and I was pretty
much wiped out. Better than _really_ getting sick, though, I suppose.
Claude
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