I'm the polar opposite of anti-vaxx. I'm a #VaxxtotheMax person.
I started nursing in the mid-70's & we were vaxxed for everything known to mankind. Felt a bit crook after the #smallpox but otherwise, not a problem.
Have had 7 #COVID19 vaxx without an issue (haven't had COVID as far as I know).
One #Shingles vaccine & 6 months to the day later, still suffering the side effects.
If you're considering #Shingrix please talk to your doc about side effects.
Are you curious where the word #vaccine comes from? Do you know how we managed to eradicate #smallpox, a disease that was killing 30% of infected people? This is a video I co-created with TedEd that tells this story.
It's a story applicable to all the other infectious diseases. We have been very close to eradicating #polio in the past decade, a virus that affects nerves and can evolve into paralysis (most often a leg) and pain. Only #vaccines can achieve eradication.
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-we-conquered-the-deadly-smallpox-virus-simona-zompi
About 5 hours after the Mpox and RSV shots, I felt tired, a little queasy, and achy. I ate some dinner then slept the rest of the evening and all night long.
I feel a bit better now, but still a bit headachy.
For the Jynneos vaccine, I imagine my immune system is currently saying,
"What!
Smallpox?!?
Nobody has said anything about this to us for decades!
Mount defenses!
Build antibodies!"
Second dose of Jynneos just now.
I hope I am not wiped out for a day solid.
I might have explained this before?
Part of this is in case mpox clade-whatever runs away.
Part of this is a miserable hedge against some wretched table-flipping where smallpox is let loose.
Sorry. I do consider it possible.
I'm gonna need ppl to understand that when they hear #endemic ... that is not a GOOD thing.
You do not want a pathogen continuously circulating in your area.
#Smallpox used to be endemic and it was BAD.
#Polio was endemic and it was BAD.
#TB was pandemic and in some parts of the world it still is, and that's BAD.
These are things I never thought I'd have to say before #Covid ... and needing to say them now is BAD.
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Thanks for posting this.
It makes some sense out of a scene setting line written about 2017/2018 by a British academic that had puzzled me but which I didn't follow up on, "Now that it has been established that colonialism was beneficial, ... ".
Being only patchily educated around the possible deliberation release of #SmallPox by the British military in #Sydney, knowing just little about Namibia and #Lebensraum, the 90% population reductions in USA & AU, ...
The US is about to be more ignorant than people thousands of years ago.
"The ancient practice of variolation... consisted of transferring to healthy people small amounts of material from smallpox sores, resulting in milder forms of illness and much lower mortality than natural infection. Some sources suggest practices of variolation were taking place as early as 200 BCE."
Today in Labor History January 18, 1788: The First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay, Australia, with 736 convicts from Great Britain. It took over 250 days to reach its destination. The penal colony became the first European settlement in Australia. Mary Bryant, with her husband, children and 6 other convicts escaped the colony and eventually returned to England. Many believe the British deliberately brought people carrying smallpox on the voyage in order to decimate the indigenous population.
A crushing blow to the #MakePolioGreatAgain agenda...
'Actively dangerous' RFK Jr. suffers blow as army of doctors line up against nomination
https://www.rawstory.com/actively-dangerous-rfk-jr-suffers-blow-as-army-of-doctors-line-up-against-nomination/
#SmallPox kills & if you happen to survive, you’re left horribly scarred for life..
#VaccinesWork 
Make Smallpox Great Again!
How smallpox claimed its final victim
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-45101091
With any luck, you'll be able to dress up next Halloween as a smallpox victim--free of charge!
@NatureMC aye, when I was a small child you often saw people badly affected by #polio in the UK, too. By the time I was an adult it had more or less completely disappeared from view – which I'm afraid must mean that a lot of the people who had been affected must have died.
Vaccination is SERIOUSLY good medicine – horrible diseases, including polio and #Smallpox, have ceased to be problems.
Happy Smallpox Eradication Day!
"35 years ago, on December 9th, 1979, humanity declared victory."
https://open.substack.com/pub/laneless/p/500-million-but-not-a-single-one-more
#QuizOfTheDay: Edward Jenner, often called the Father of #Immunology, is credited for developing the #Smallpox vaccine.
Which virus caused smallpox?
A. Echovirus
B. Variola
C. Aichivirus
D. Cosavirus
https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/quiz?qId=629f4621083e7159f8ba7641
#OnThisDay The eradication of the #Smallpox virus was certified (1979).
Birth Anniversary of American computer scientist Grace Hopper (1906). She led the development of COBOL, an early high-level #Programming #Language.
Birth Anniversary of #English #Poet John Milton (1608).
Today is International Anti-Corruption Day.
Today in Labor History November 30, 1803: The Balmis Expedition left Spain to vaccinate millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines. The mission lasted from 1803 to 1806. The Spanish brought smallpox to the Americas, decimating the indigenous populations. Edward Jenner pioneered the vaccine in 1798. At that time, about 400,000 Europeans died each year from smallpox. And it was the cause of one-third of all cases of blindness in Europe. In the 1770s, a smallpox epidemic wiped out 30% of the Indigenous peoples of the Puget Sound region. And overall, some historians estimate that smallpox wiped out over 90% of all indigenous people of the Americas, in one of the largest genocides in history.
When #WHAuden invited Austrian friends to come to #NYC in the mid-1960s, he reminded them to bring a vaccination certificate. 
Would this most likely refer to #smallpox vaccine? #Tubercolosis? #Poliomyelitis?
