Vaccinations, The Canadian Way

[ClintonHammond]

Damnit but I FKin LOVE this country!

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/07/17/mumps-creative.html?ref=rss

[jens]

A vaccination with a Guinness...Brilliant! :D

Seriously, though, that's a pretty cool idea. I've heard of things like this with blood drives, but never with vaccinations.

[Katana]

While I support an initiative, particularly a creative one, to encourage people to receive vaccinations, why does it have to come to this?

Why isn't the benefit of the vaccine enough?

[ClintonHammond]

Cause people are stupid....

d'uh

[Katana]

Cause people are stupid....

d'uh


My first response was, "Oh, yeah :mgduh."

But these are your country-mates.

So it's not limited to us silly Americans?

:p

[Tsukasa Buddha]

Goddammit Canada, stop being cooler than America!

[kellyb]

While I support an initiative, particularly a creative one, to encourage people to receive vaccinations, why does it have to come to this?

Why isn't the benefit of the vaccine enough?

Probably because it's mumps, which isn't exactly the deadliest of the infectious diseases out there. (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/G/cases&deaths.pdf)
Most college kids are probably also thinking "But I already had those shots when I was a kid." So when they hear that they need another one, they're assuming the message is directed at someone other than themselves.

[Hydrogen Cyanide]

Mumps is definitely not as bad as measles. But it very painful, especially if you are a male who is past puberty (these are mostly college students).

There was an outbreak last year in American Midwest:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm55d518a1.htm

Parotitis was reported in 870 (66%) of the 1,327 patients for whom such data were available. Data regarding mumps complications and hospitalizations are incomplete. However, complications have included 27 reports of orchitis, 11 meningitis, four encephalitis, four deafness, and one each of oophoritis, mastitis, pancreatitis, and unspecified complications. A total of 25 hospitalizations were reported, but insufficient data were provided to determine whether mumps caused all the hospitalizations. No deaths have been reported.

[kellyb]

It's looks like the CDC's thinking about going ahead and adding a third dose to the schedule eventually. I haven't seen it turn up on the ACIP agenda for discussion yet, though.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/acip/downloads/mtg-slides-oct06/09-mumps-1-dayan.pdf

Vaccine Effectiveness: Unanswered
Questions
• Can we prevent future mumps outbreaks with
the current MMR vaccine?
• Can mumps be eliminated using the current
MMR vaccine?
• Would a 3rd dose of MMR be useful for
outbreak prevention?

[ClintonHammond]

"So it's not limited to us silly Americans?"
No country has a monopoly on stupid... Stupid is equal opportunity in the purest sense... It doesn't care what your ethnic background is, or what your sexual orientation is, or what side of some arbitrary line you live on... If you invite it into your life, it obliges!

"Canada, stop being cooler than America!"
Sorry... it just comes naturally to us... I think it's all the pot we smoke.
;-)

[Hydrogen Cyanide]

Apparently it has been nixed, from http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=88fb7c16-eadd-476b-9bb7-85306ab41f5f

Health Minister Barry Barnet yesterday rejected a doctor's suggestion that more 18-to-25-year-olds would get the vaccine if they were offered a free beer.
"I think we need to be creative, but that's being a little too creative," Barnet said. "It does send the wrong message"

One of the reasons it would not have worked south of your border is that our drinking age is 21. Though I confess to drinking alcohol in Vancouver, BC when I was 18. :rolleyes: (In the says of disco, a place called the "Loose Caboose"!)

[opqdan]

Ha.

while ( ! plastered )
{
Get vaccine, drink cheap beer.
}
...

BAC: .2
BVC (blood vaccine concentration): 3.2

[ClintonHammond]

"It does send the wrong message"

What a load!

[Ohmer]

Damnit but I FKin LOVE this country!

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/07/17/mumps-creative.html?ref=rss

Brilliant. Canada would rule the world if it weren't so full of drunks.

[petra10]

In our high schools they get vaccines for bcg and rubella.These are administered by everyone together in the main hall and they all get done together.I think they should blast out rock music while the kids are getting their injections.A doctor once told me if you sing if you hurt yourself or are in pain that the singing takes your mind off the pain.I've tried it and it works.


btw clintonhammond do you sing Irish folk songs.

[ClintonHammond]

"Canada would rule the world if it weren't so full of drunks."
We learned it from Ireland...

I sing Irish... Scottish... Canadian mostly.... all kinds of stuff.

[tracer]

From the article in the OP:

MacDonald said young people are at higher risk of spreading and contracting infectious diseases because they have many close contacts.


So THAT'S what you kids are calling it these days.

[Zep]

I sing Irish... Scottish... Canadian mostly.... all kinds of stuff.Sure you don't mean "drink"?

[petra10]

at family parties we all get drunk and sing old Irish and old Scottish songs.Sorry i dont know any Canadian songs although Monty Pyhton's "I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok" always reminds me of Canada. :)

[The Atheist]

"Canada would rule the world if it weren't so full of drunks."
We learned it from Ireland...

I sing Irish... Scottish... Canadian mostly.... all kinds of stuff.

753 posts and still haven't found the "QUOTE" button?

[Art Vandelay]

Do they use alcohol as a solvent in any of the vaccinations? That would be one marketing strategy. "Free alcohol mainlining!"

In our high schools they get vaccines for bcg and rubella.These are administered by everyone together in the main hall and they all get done together.I think they should blast out rock music while the kids are getting their injections.A doctor once told me if you sing if you hurt yourself or are in pain that the singing takes your mind off the pain.I've tried it and it works.Doesn't work so well during a root canal.

[petra10]

Well it worked during childbirth."Sweet child of mine" by guns 'n' roses was my favourite.
Although for my last child it was "This will be the last time,baby the last time"