>>3rd world countries with generally poor sanitation and basic health care.
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>>I know you are a supporter of vaccination. I'd say that the jury is still out on the benefits of it to us as a species.
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>Yeah, I sure miss the good old days of my early youth when polio was a option for all kids and we didn't have to be subjected to horrors of Salk Oral Vaccine.
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>And smallpox gave my grandfather's generation such "character" in their features ...

I remember standing in line in school to receive the german measles vaccine in the arm and the oral polio as well (after a couple of weeks of my parents stressing over whether it was safe or to take the risk or was the illness riskier.....)