Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site hlwpc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!hlexa!hlwpc!cb From: cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med Subject: Re: Meningitis Vaccine Message-ID: <623@hlwpc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 14:22:24 EST Article-I.D.: hlwpc.623 Posted: Tue Oct 29 14:22:24 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 07:31:08 EST References: <1216@vax135.UUCP> <1330@mtgzz.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 20 Xref: watmath net.kids:2183 net.med:2650 > I haven't really done much research into this, but I know that it is a new > vaccine that a lot of pediatricians are pushing. > Ask your pediatrician for more info. I believe there's a minimum age requirement, like 18 months or two years. Ask about this too. I'm quite interested in this vaccine, as I knew a couple whose child came down with this disease. In fact, my wife and I were at a party one evening with this couple and their kid, and I held their kid on my lap along with my son. Two days later, my wife gets a phone call, and she asks me, "did Alex (our son) have any contact with Elliot (their son) Friday night?" to which I answered, "yes, I was holding them both on my lap." At which point my wife almost went crazy, because the phone call was from our friends telling me that Elliot had just been hospitalized with Haemophilis Menningitis B! So, folks, it's not a rare unheard-of disease to us! Luckily, our son never caught it. Carl Blesch