Deadly and debilitating, both are dangerous maladies plaguing every family with an involved child before the advent of Penicillin, pretty much the first antibiotic. Meningitis was almost uniformly fatal and “strep” throat debilitatingly producing scarlet fever and heart disease. These too, all parents should know about if only to provided historical context and understanding about why we think and do like we do.
A chronicle of our struggle to get out of the mess we’ve been in trying to understand immunizations.
Back in 2010 Japanese GPS artist Yassan (also known as Yasushi Takahashi) wrote the world’s largest marriage proposal by travelling around Japan while recording his GPS track. He holds the Guinness World Record for ‘Largest GPS drawing by an individual’. In the notoriety he found ability to pursue his ambitions, and help from Japan Airlines, enabling him to annotate the earth with his GPS tracks of an important message for the new year: Peach On Earth
Link to the US government website for immunization recommendations: birth to 18
Your teen will probably never ask you if they’re ready to have sex; but, they might read a pamphlet about it…