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[venta]

Help... my views are under attack! It seems that something I arbitrarily claimed on someone else's LJ is very wrong.

My claim was: everyone (in the UK, for approximately accurate values of everyone) had the BCG jab (ie TB vaccine) at secondary school. It seems that this isn't true, though.

What we need is a poll.



[Poll #1789614]


In not-entirely-unrelated news, hjalfi and I concluded last week that the goverment's current welfare and NHS reforms are not an attempt to undermine the system, but a genuine desire to improve the quality of today's literature. The more starving, tubercular people we have in poor housing, the more poetry we get. Fact.

Comments

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

I didn't have a jab at school or similar either because my school (independent HMC school) didn't do it or else because my parents wouldn't sign the consent form. I know I missed out on one jab for this reason but don't know whether that was TB.
I did have the TB jab before we set off for the developing world. Arm went manky, but not very manky.
It wasn't as bad as the day I had the typhoid and cholera jabs on the same morning.

[venta.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm aware, there are only two jabs routinely administered at secondary-school age in the UK: rubella and TB. And only girls get rubella. So I'd guess it might be TB you missed, but doubtless someone will point out I'm wrong about that :)

(Actually, I think there's now HPV as well, but that's a recent wossname).

[lnr]

We also had a tetanus booster which I think was another jab, at the same time as polio drops at some point too. I think that may have been between rubella (11) and BCG (13/14).

(And I had some non-routine jabs at school for a trip to Morocco at the end of the 5th year too).

Did anyone else have the thing of people deliberately punching each other on the manky arm because it hurt?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

We had that for the rubella jab. :(

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Did anyone else have the thing of people deliberately punching each other on the manky arm because it hurt?
Aye. To the extent that a school edict went round saying that doing so could result in either or both a) a suspension and b) being bollocked by the (rather terrifying) deputy Head.

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

We constantly did this. Didn't the Mary Whitehouse Experience refer to it at one point?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I had MMR and polio done when I was, er, 14 I think. The year after the TB one. MMR was a needle and polio was a drop of liquid on a sugar cume which you had to crunch and swallow before you tasted the horrible liquid. So I deliberately didn't chew it so as not to be doing what I was told. It was indeed horrible.

Got to go, the dumplings alarm just went off. Best alarm ever.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

The typhoid one gets really sore afterwards. I remember walking around looking really shifty at people who might wak into it for a couple of days.