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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

[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.