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I notice how you completely ignore the story of the Marine, holding up his big red dog-tag and informing his government appointed doctor of his drug allergies being completely ignored — That, along with you dismissal of GraceG's firsthand account of a reaction tells me one thing: that you believe that the experts have more of a claim over our determination than we ourselves do… you sir, are a tyrant.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
― C.S. Lewis

I notice how you completely ignore the story of the Marine...

I always ignore anecdotes in the face of evidence.

I don't care about the story of your brother in law, or how you "heard from a guy", or that back in the 80's there was this thing that happened.

Anecdotes told anonymously on the Internet are worthless as evidence, especially considering GraceG's story is completely irrelevant to the topic of pediatric medicine.

… you sir, are a tyrant.

Well, you're an idiot. You can do whatever the hell you want with your own body. But you have no right to spread deadly communicable diseases because you're stupid. Your right to be stupid ends at your neighbor's health.