diphtheria

As I recall, most of the Native deaths were from smallpox, measles, typhoid, diphtheria, and the bubonic plague. Not exactly common diseases these days.

Entirely possible, but that's quite different from them being more vulnerable to diphtheria, which was the specific claim made earlier in this thread.

Are the children of heavily exposed people actually contracting diphtheria or tetanus at measurably higher rates? Should we wait for that to happen if the risk is obvious?

The Amazon basin hosted many millions of people for millennia until smallpox, diphtheria, and measles were delivered to them.

It's a massive benefit to everyone, if people with people with infectious diseases like TB, diphtheria and cholera can get treatment for free, without producing ID or proof of entitlement. And that's true whether or not they have legal status, as immigrants or whatever.

If you are going to make arguments against vaccines like measles, polio, diphtheria, tetanus you _really_ must do more homework. These are very serious diseases and we really don't want casual free-riders avoiding vaccination.

> diphtheria Penicillin works. > Smallpox Was eliminated with a vaccine that is no longer administered.

> The worldwide publicity the event received helped spur widespread diphtheria inoculations, which greatly reduced [yearly deaths]. Seems we messed up by not getting dogs involved in covid vaccine delivery.

It does not recommend universal vaccination of adults for Hep B. The main recommended one for adults is a tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis booster every 10 years. My last tetanus shot was about 2 years ago.

Last I checked diphtheria levels in Western world remain at single digits per year levels, and the rare exceptions are almost invariably antivaxxers, not because the DPT vaccine has stopped working.

A hundred years ago, we'd be worried about getting knifed by strangers, bear maulings, starving to death, being homeless, eating food laced with botulism and lead, influenza, tuberculosis, diphtheria ... Things are pretty good.

Are the children of heavily exposed people actually contracting diphtheria or tetanus at measurably higher rates? Again, the headline figure you're quoting sounds alarming, but if it's accurate and applicable to the broader population, then we should be seeing that effect outside the lab as well.

>There is no association between diphtheria, tetanus and whole cell pertussis vaccine, oral polio vaccine or measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and the risk of asthma. The weak associations for Hib and hepatitis B vaccines seem to be at least partially accounted for by health care utilization or information bias.