Rare tuberculosis
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- paraselene0
no, they literally send you a summons saying that you have to go into the hospital!
and i've got a tetanus shot, yes. but no cat! i'm afraid the flat is too small and it would be unfair.
- moth0
They try and get everyone. They'll only try when you see your GP though. They don't drag people off the streets.
What about Tetanus? Have you got that? You have a cat now right?
Be afraid.
- paraselene0
well, i survived hackney in the end. the doctors weren't all that surprised that i didn't want the jab and didn't put up much of a fight.
the thing i think that bothered me about the whole situation was that they don't drag new immigrants in kensington and chelsea into the hospitals for vaccines.
and when they realised that i was an educated, white american and not a poorer economic migrant, they didn't really care whether or not i got the jab.
- Jaline0
in fact, i seriously doubt that YOU have ever had a tb vaccination. you should look into it.
paraselene
(Jun 1 07, 04:56)You're right! I just mean if I lived in a shady place, and if someone actually recommended that I get one, I would definitely do it.
I currently live in the suburbs, so I think I'm okay. Unless that bastard from the plane got me on his way through Canada :E
- paraselene0
I declined the TB vaccination on teh grounds that it would aggravate my rampant leprosy
kelpie
(Jun 1 07, 04:56)this explains so much!
- paraselene0
we had vaccinations when we were kids, same as you, jaline, but not for tb. in fact, i seriously doubt that YOU have ever had a tb vaccination. you should look into it.
- kelpie0
I declined the TB vaccination on teh grounds that it would aggravate my rampant leprosy
- Jaline0
*reminds self to never go near para
- emecks0
musta built up a resistance living in teh ghetto, no? ;)
- paraselene0
neither have i!
:P
- emecks0
the TB vaccination hurt like an angry wasp in your eye, BUT then again I've never contracted TB so it's all good :)
- Jaline0
we haven't had to have vaccinations in the states since the sixties.
paraselene
(Jun 1 07, 03:33)Does this include school vaccinations when you're young, like for hepatitis (which we have to get here in Canada)?
I would've had the TB vaccination, to be honest.
- Jaline0
We should jab in your asses at the airport!
moth
(Jun 1 07, 03:06)hahahaha
- emecks0
We should jab in your asses at the airport!
moth
(Jun 1 07, 03:06)*will never fly anywhere via London again
- paraselene0
we haven't had to have vaccinations in the states since the sixties. traditional tb has been entirely eradicated there and now we only have to deal with these new super-viruses.
there's no real reason for me to get a vaccine - tb is completely treatable, and when it's not and has evolved to be untreatable, then a vaccine won't help anyway.
- moth0
Nanny state?
Have TB then.
The reason the UK is relatively free from such diseases is BECAUSE we have vaccination. You should be forced to have it. It's safe, and we've doing it for years. Why should we have a few immigrants fucking the system up? We should jab in your asses at the airport!
- paraselene0
when i first moved to the uk i was living in hackney which is a pretty poor area and a lot of immigrants, both legal and otherwise, live there.
i got a letter within a month of moving in, directing me to go to the hospital for a tb test. when they found out that i wasn't vaccinated, they tried to force me to get a vaccination.
i told them to get bent with their nanny state.
:l
- jevad0
ZOMG 28 DAYS LATER?!!
- Gucci0
I once got a letter from the government that said I could have contracted TB. It didn't say where, how, or from whom... but it said I should get checked out because I was in "close contact" with someone who had contracted TB.
I was pretty fucking scared 'cause I had no clue what the fuck it was. Messed up.
- -sputnik-0
so are you starting to feel better at all now?