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My grandparents were told that my father had permanent brain damage and would never fully recover. When my father awoke, he had to be retrained from potty-training on up. They assumed this meant that his cognitive function would never be normal, but it was actually his personality that changed.

My father had come down with measles in 1962 at 13 years old, while living in Johannesburg, South Africa. His case developed into encephalitis, and he slipped into a coma. He woke up some two or three weeks later.

By my father’s own description, he could not control his actions when he lost his temper. He had no recollection of having anger issues prior to getting measles.

My father had been incredibly proud of a collection of special rocks he had collected while in South Africa. Shortly after awakening from his coma, he was holding his collection when something triggered him. He forcibly threw the rocks, scattering and breaking many of them in the process. When his anger subsided, he was left looking at his destroyed treasures and genuinely confused about why he had ruined something that was so special to him.

This sort of uncontrolled outburst would plague him the rest of his life, even though he was a very gentle man at all other times

The only diagnosis he ever got was of long-term brain damage. I don’t think the doctors or his parents realized that the violent outbursts were a result of this. Even though he regained his full cognitive abilities, his parents treated him as if he would never have the same intelligence level as other people his age. For instance, they gave him building blocks as a gift when he turned 16 years old.

Due to my father’s brain damage, I grew up never knowing when he would blow up, and what might happen. At least twice, he lost his temper while driving and did u-turns while driving 40 mph. In high school, I had to stop him from bashing his own head into the wall of our apartment. Once I had a partner, my father regularly shattered Christmas decorations if we did not get to my parents’ house at the right time on the holiday.

Eventually, he got to a point where he could somewhat direct his actions, like throwing his car keys into the bushes so that he could not drive off mad. He would stalk off instead and usually be gone for several hours before coming home once the anger passed.

It has taken years of therapy and psychiatric treatment for me to come to terms with the fact that these and other episodes were not the result of deliberate decisions on my father’s part. It was not until I was in therapy that I stumbled across psychological texts that listed the symptoms of prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex damage. They fit perfectly with the changes in behavior that my father described after his coma.

Finding those articles finally let me let go of some of my anger. However, it does not make it any easier to deal with the results.

If there had been a vaccine available when he was a child, I feel certain he would not have gotten the disease. If he hadn’t, my entire childhood would have been different.

Hey! I have a question over a concern I heard. It’s really weird tbh.

So, I’m friends with a lot of kids from my school’s seventh graders, for context: I go to art class with like 7 of them, so in turn I’m a big sister to lots of the kids there.

This week, they got their HPV shots. Of course I asked this kid, Mia, why she didn’t get hers, since, they asked me before things like : “did it hurt??” Or “was it worth it?” And I of course told them all to get it if they had a say. And this kid told me she didn’t get it. I asked her if her mum or dad prevented her, and she said (not exactly) this:

“Well, we read online that it’s somehow bad for athletes, and can have bed side effects. And you know I go to world championships, and things like that—“

And I’m really confused on that!

So, have you guys heard of opinions like this before?

I got 2 shots during the age of 11 to 15 had serology test it been over 20 years so i need booster shot? Levels show 8.4 need it for job requirement

Influvac Tetra: I’ve had that.

Other flu vaccines available - Flucelvax, Fluzone and Fluad.

Fluad is for over 50s. I won’t be able to get that.

I’ve compared the strains in each vaccine and each has a couple the others do not.

I am in the southern hemisphere.

Hi, my wife & i are new parents, freaked out by the conspiracies we see online. We both know we want to vaccinate our baby (turning 2 in a few days) and are going to, but we would feel much better about it if we could read studies that show vaccines dont cause/correlate to autism rates

We've seen the 95k+ participants study on MMR, and are already feel better, but the more we have the more we would feel at ease

Also, we are planning on getting vaccines one or 2 at a time to not give our baby so many at once, does the community have any thoughts on this?

We appreciate your feedback & consideration

We have no amazing Escherichia coli vaccine approved yet.

This new review of 42 studies was published yesterday.

Vaccine platforms included inactivated/killed whole-cell (14), subunit (12), live-attenuated (9) and conjugate vaccines (7).

Most vaccine candidates induced measurable immune responses. Among the 10 trials that reported efficacy outcomes:

• 2 presented high levels of protection,
• 6 were associated with reductions in disease severity,
• 2 demonstrated no protective effect.

Safety profiles were generally favorable.

Progress will require standardized efficacy trials, multivalent platforms, and optimized mucosal adjuvants to advance candidates toward licensure.

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