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    New Additions to the decor of Glenn Cottage Eggery

    Nemaste, again you make a good point. Since 1980, the only cases of polio in the US were due to the oral polio vaccine (a live virus vaccine). About one in 3 million doses of the oral vaccine mutates or reverts to a form which causes actual polio. This was causing 8-9 cases yearly, so by 2000...
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    New Additions to the decor of Glenn Cottage Eggery

    The anti-vaccine movement seems to be healthy and thriving. Against my better judgment, I will try to spread some real science here: --herd immunity is part of everyday life. Whenever a cold or flu virus sweeps through the community, we become infected by people who are coughing/sneezing, we...
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    New Additions to the decor of Glenn Cottage Eggery

    Wow! This certainly is a hot button topic! I'm sorry that it detracts from the original thread (perhaps the moderator may wish to move it to a more appropriate section). You have no argument from me that there seems to be too many required vaccines (I have three children). However, let's...
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    An Apple Bird? :P -- An Apple Thread, Post your pix!

    Composting! awesome, btw my chickens eat compost and the all the little grubs i find in it too!
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    New Additions to the decor of Glenn Cottage Eggery

    Sorry to "butt in", but vaccines are an interest of mine, as well. Mercury was voluntarily removed from pediatric vaccines years ago. It remains as a preservative for flu shots only. Vaccines are NOT a highly profitable item for manufacturers--in fact, due to potential lawsuits, most...
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