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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually we delayed both Heps, but we finished Hep A after K started. My children were not in daycare and did not meet any of the criteria for high risk. Hep A is pretty rare. Below is taken from the CDC website.

Who is at risk for Hepatitis A?
Although anyone can get Hepatitis A, in the United States, certain groups of people are at higher risk, such as those who:
Travel to or live in countries where Hepatitis A is common
Are men who have sexual contact with other men
Use illegal drugs, whether injected or not
Have clotting-factor disorders, such as hemophilia
Live with someone who has Hepatitis A
Have oral-anal sexual contact with someone who has Hepatitis A[/quote]

So no one your child comes in contact with travels. Your child will never go to someone's house or outing where the parent has just returned from travel. You have asked all your neighbors, family and friends who host you for meals what their status is and if they have had homosexual encounters or used IV drugs. You inquire at restaurants you bring your children to if any of the food workers are in the above categories and inspect their hands as they prepare the food.

If you thought "no, I don't do any of these things", go get your children vaccinated [/quote]

[b]I did. Just not per the "schedule." Miraculously they lived. Go worry about someone else.[/quote][/b]

Whatever works for you.  Don't worry at all that failure to get vaccines when they are required can end up hurting immunity for all kids.  [b]But don't worry, there is a polio-like virus now for which there is no vaccine, thanks in part to overrule of antibiotics and people not getting shots.[/b]  It's scary.[/quote]

Please share the connection between a) overuse of abx and/or b) lack of vaccinations to this new virus. What exactly is the scientific consensus on that? 
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Overuse of antibiotics creates new diseases as they become overexposed to the antibiotic and therefore learn how to defeat it and mutate accordingly. If a respiratory disease (in this case I believe they're talking about the outbreak that happened last year, 'non-polio enterovirus') mutates into something more serious than bronchitis, like polio, then the need for a vaccine becomes crucial because the consequences of a paralyzing respiratory illness like polio are so much more severe. So they aren't necessarily DIRECTLY tied together, but definitely indirectly tied together. Vaccines take awhile to research, test and produce. If we can reduce the amount of diseases mutating due to overuse of antibiotics, we reduce the probability that we will need to be scrambling to pull a vaccine together in a worst case scenario. [/quote]

So these [i]viruses[/i] are affected by antibiotics?  The drugs that kill [i]bacteria[/i]?  Am I understanding you correctly? 
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Touche! I am neither a scientist or a schill! Sometimes I make mistakes, which is why I depend on my doctor's to steer me in the right direction :)[/quote]

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