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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.

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[undyingking.livejournal.com]

My sister, three years older, had an arm that went manky from the BCG to the extent of a chunk of flesh and skin being eaten away and having to be patched with a surgical graft. My parents thought it wisest to opt me out.

My Dad actually had TB when he was young, and nearly died from it (this was in the 1940s). Fortunately for him, streptomycin was in trial and he got some.