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PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. I likewise had measles, mumps, chicken pox, and rubella

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 3, 2025, 10:25 AM

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because I was born a long time ago. The only vaccines available were smallpox and DPT. I was about seven when the first polio vaccines came out. My sons got chicken pox, a year or two before that vaccine came out.

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