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To: JRandomFreeper
My husband and I had to have a ZILLION shots when we went to work and live in Saudi Arabia.
I EVEN needed a polio shot/booster.

YIKES!! Made me a little nervous.

When we went on to Egypt and Kenya for a visit: MORE shots. Lord have mercy.

I decided that if a child survives growing up in the middle east or Africa and is in relatively good health...nothing short of a SILVER BULLET would kill him.

13 posted on 11/09/2013 8:42:10 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

While it’s true that most Middle Easterners and Africans are pretty tough, I think vaccinations are in relation to local diseases. By that, I mean, some little Honeybee in Ypsilanti, Michigan might not effect the average American citizen especially, if you’ve been stung by genetic cousins of that Honeybee a few times before. Your body already has a base of resistance to build on. Whereas some of these gigantic and ‘exotic’ for lack of a better word bugs and sand dwelling weevils over there,, would present an entirely new chemical compound of venom into the interior of your body. So the multitude of shots is to prepare your system for what it has never likely encountered before, and I quickly add, this is only my opinion. I could be way off.


18 posted on 11/09/2013 10:13:21 PM PST by lee martell
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