scarlet fever

@kent f OBE wrote:

I was given the TB jab at birth as were my children. It’s pretty bog standard for some ethnic groups. Now maybe I can understand why I had to have it 46 years ago…although just about….but why my children? Second generation born here, I had only been to India once after my eldest who is 27 now was born and went 7 years ago when my youngest (14 now ) was 7. I just agreed to the jabs, new mums are more or less told it’s necessary and you feel guilty if you even think of not having it.

Your children were vaccinated to stop them catching it.

Diseases like TB have largely been eradicated in this country by compulsory vaccination. Now if you stop vaccinating the population then you let the disease back in when one non vaccinated person brings it back and infects another and so forth.

Why stop it? You wouldn’t stop teenage girls having the rubella vaccination or whenever they have it now so why let TB back in?

History does repeat itself and we don’t want TB causing deaths en masse again.