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To: LLCF who wrote (60)11/2/1999 9:55:00 PM
From: scaram(o)uche   of 357
 
It's certainly a non-issue for strong, protective vaccines. But, to protect my kid (and if I were a recent postpartum female), I'd nonetheless prefer to have had a recent bout of the real stuff. That would be 20-20 hindsight, after not having had a choice. In real life, I'll take the vaccine and pass on less that the entire repertoire of antibodies that I might otherwise have made.

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I believe that polio was predominantly a disease of developed countries. Why? Because kids in endemic areas were down on dirt floors, playing in the virus during those first six months of life where mom's antibodies are protective. That is, they got subclinical infections that were protective.
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