<p>I doubt that I had the influenza, too. However, there is a chance I did. Some simply dont show the most obvious signs of an illness.</p>
<p>What I considered a " rich persons problem" , is the opportunity & decision & dollars, to vaccinate against things like Hep A, when developing countries are battling much more serious & prevalent disease.</p>
<p>Maybe you should bottle and sell your resistance to illness 
If you truly had influenza or whatever bad flue was virulent then and werent that sick, then you may have unnecessarily exposed others with less strong immune systems to a bad illness. </p>
<p>My BIL always claims to have walking pneumonia or the flu or an upper respiratory infection when he has a bad cold.</p>
<p>It might have something to do with the fact that i never run a fever…I could make my superhero name based off of that!</p>
<p>@emerald Which country do you feel should begin (AKA fund) the relief mission? Or should it be done through the UN?</p>
<p>I presumably exposed others to the flu when I had it, but if I didnt know I was ill, how would I know to stay in?
My natural temp, is almost 3 degrees lower than normal ( discovered when checking for thyroid issues & was monitoring my basal temp)
I have known Ive had fevers before however, for instance when I had mastitis & found myself lying on the bathroom floor, but as I was the only adult available to take care of the kids, I didnt have the luxury of staying home.( but it isnt contagious. )</p>
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<p>Hepatitis A is different from B.</p>
<p>A is mainly a contaminated food-borne infection; “wild” infection is common in poor countries, so its vaccine is mainly seen as a “travel” vaccine in rich countries. B is mainly transmitted by blood or sexual contact, or mother to newborn. B may become a chronic infection that eventually causes other liver problems like liver cancer.</p>
<p>Re: [Why</a> Polio Isn’t Going Away: Scientific American](<a href=“http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=polios-last-act]Why”>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=polios-last-act)</p>
<p>The oral polio vaccine (OPV) is convenient to administer, but is a weakened polio virus that can mutate back into a dangerous form. This is rare, but as the incidence of “wild” polio decreases in a given area, such OPV-induced cases become significant compared to the remaining number of “wild” cases.</p>
<p>The inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) is an injected vaccine that is currently the preferred vaccine in the US. This vaccine contains “dead” virus.</p>
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I have yet to have my temperature recorded, although I believe mine naturally runs lower. There was this one time I knew I had a fever, yet the thermometer said 98.8.</p>
<p>You have ‘yet to have your temperature recorded’? Never had a physical growing up? That is one of the first things they do… I always ask them what it is. :)</p>
<p>Perhaps, monitored is a better verb, intparent?</p>
<p>Yes, if that is what you meant…</p>
<p>Yes, that is was what I meant! I haven’t had my body temperature monitored as of yet.</p>
<p>Another one with a lower than normal temperature and the only time I have ever run a temperature was when I was 8, had pneumonia and almost died. It was 106! I had pneumonia twice after that with no temperature at all. </p>
<p>As for the people who don’t vaccinate their kids - you can’t teach stupid.</p>
<p>I would say the same about people who do whatever big pharma pushes at them without investigating further.</p>
<p>^ You’re free to do that.</p>
<p>Intparent, when I got my flu vaccine last year at Walgreens, I asked about the shingles vaccine. The pharmacist told me that I would need a prescription because I wasn’t 60 yet. I have a brother in law that got shingles in his eye at the age of 46. It was horrible and scary. He came through it ok but spent weeks in a dark room. I will talk to my physician this month when I have my yearly physical. I’ve already made my deductible this year so maybe I will go for it.</p>
<p>Having had shingles when I was 27 (very unusual) I will be getting the vaccine on my 60th birthday, sooner if my doctor oks it. It was horrible.</p>
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<p>But so often “investigating further” just means listening to pseudo science that is not peer reviewed or from any respectable source. People have let themselves be scared out of taking advantage for themselves and their children of the greatest medical advancement of the modern age, vaccination. And they are risking the health of everyone else around them as well. Dumber than rocks.</p>
<p>There’s a difference between listening to big pharma and getting vaccines used on billions of people for decades and decades. </p>
<p>There was a FANTASTIC coursera course recently on how vaccines get from development to when they’re actually allowed to be used on people. I think they’re offering it again soon. I wish everyone would take it. Wayyyy too many people think that vaccines are made overnight and just distributed at will as a money scheme.</p>
<p>I get the flu vaccine every year. Having had fairly serious bronchial infections and pneumonia multiple times, I can get a small bug that knocks me out for weeks. A few years ago, I got a really nasty variety of walking pneumonia. </p>
<p>Went to doc, they said, “sounds clear” and sent me home. I said I felt that same chest pressure that always was there when I had pneumonia before. Of course, they didn’t believe me. A week later, I had to be driven to the doctor and missed a bunch of work because just standing up was exhausting and by golly, yep - there it was on the chest xray. Took about 6 weeks to feel even slightly better and the cough persisted for nearly 3 months. </p>
<p>Doctor told me to get the pneumococcal shot when I was all well. A few years ago, could only that shot if elderly or very seriously compromised immune system.</p>
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There’s a difference between listening to big pharma and getting vaccines used on billions of people for decades*</p>
<p>Which would not be giving chicken pox or Hep vaccines to infants.
That’s why I say I selectively vaccinate.
I also practiced extended nursing which greatly aided their immune systems.</p>