• ccunix@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    To be fair I have known perfectly reasonable people choose the risk of malaria over taking that vaccine. Don’t know if they have changed it since I was a kid, but that vaccine was guaranteed to make you feel awful.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      that vaccine was guaranteed to make you feel awful.

      Malaria, Yellow and Dengue fever are guaranteed to make you feel awful.

      You’ve known perfectly reasonable idiots.

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        9 hours ago

        Possibly, but their argument was that the risk of getting the disease was small, but the vaccine was guaranteed. They grew up there, so I would think they know the subject better than me.

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      4 days ago

      I don’t know, I traveled with my parents to several African countries as a kid, and we got a bunch of vaccines, and I don’t remember having any major reactions.