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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

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Oxfordshire stopped offering BCG boosters (the early teens one) about two years before I was eligible. I never have had it, and neither did my schoolfriends. The whole programme was stopped in 2005, although I doubt many 17-19 year olds will respond.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

In the United Kingdom, a report of a survey of immunisation co-ordinators in 1992 revealed that 15 out of 186 respondents had stopped their school immunisation programme. Fourteen of these had a selective neonatal BCG immunisation policy.

Following the introduction of a selective BCG immunisation policy in Oxfordshire there was no evidence to suggest that this had led to a rise in the levels of notified TB (Tayler & Mayon White 1995, Cohen & Mayon White, 1997 unpublished data), although there was evidence to suggest that the selective immunisation policy was not being rigorously implemented. In 2001 Oxfordshire·s rates remained low, but the re-introduction of routine BCG immunisation into secondary schools was being discussed (Mayon White, personal communication, 2001).

I am not sure if Oxfordshire was the authority that did not introduce selective neonatal vaccination at that time, but it's currently a selective programme and smallclanger was not offered it (in 2003, or since).

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Can't edit because I replied to myself but apparently it was 3-4 years before I was eligible, in fact.
http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/3/209.abstract

[venta.livejournal.com]

Are you sure the 13-14 one was a booster? I thought it was a single-shot vaccination (though quite what was supposed to stop me getting TB before I was 13 I have no idea).

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

My fingers typed booster without consulting my brain, and I probably didn't mean booster at all (judging by the links I've read I definitely didn't).

In my defence, I am currently running a temp of 100.2F. On the plus side, I definitely don't have TB. ;-)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

You will have had one as a baby that you don't remember too!

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Not infallibly - it's been a selective process in various parts of the country since it was introduced - see above, etc. It is true that most of the country between the ages of 20 and 50 did, though.

venta probably had a neonatal immunisation and a secondary-school booster. I had neither [I've now checked with my baby book, having found it!], solely by a quirk of geography.