[EvaClement]

I received the following from another venue:
"All of our soldiers were vaccinated against small pox recently. My husband's health care provider decided to wait to give him his vaccine until he arrived in Iraq because our 5 year old has eczema. The soldiers here who had babies at home or breast feeding wives were also told to wait until they got to Iraq. I wonder what this soldier's army health care team were thinking? Mary"

I have, well, let's just say, a close relative, who had a debilitating injury due to the incompetence of a superior officer while he was on a training exercise in the military. Said relative will pay the price for that injury everyday for the rest of his life, and the superior officer was never even reprimanded nor did he acknowledge his error/apologize.

E.C.

[EvaClement]

From another venue again: "This is an effect of vaccines that is not in the public mind. When I was studying the effects of vaccinations several years ago, one thing that I learned was that when polio vaccine was administered (live vaccine only, I believe), the infant/child shed the vaccine in bowel movements for some time. This would make diaper hygiene critical, but when you think of disposable diapers, it forms a scarier possibility. In the case of disposables, feces will end up in the landfill. Is this something we want just lying around? I can't believe these possibilities are not made more public." JP, Ontario