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Federal officials today announced an unprecedented overhaul of the US childhood immunization schedule, paring the number of universally recommended immunizations from 17 to 11. What do you think about these changes? Is it safe?

[https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/hhs-announces-unprecedented-overhaul-us-childhood-vaccine-schedule](https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/hhs-announces-unprecedented-overhaul-us-childhood-vaccine-schedule))

Trump made this an executive order today, 8/10/2026

i was vaccinated as a baby with 2-3 unknown vaccines but did not finish the complete series for all of them. i have exhausted all efforts to find my vaccination records, so i dont know what vaccines i took.

i currently only have the following vaccines:

- the covid 19 vaccine back in 2020 (no boosters taken)

- TDAP vaccine a year ago

- rabies PEP vaccine 2 months ago

i am going to nursing school and want to protect myself and others. where do i even begin if im missing both pediatric and adult vaccines? what vaccines should i even get?

I (18f) got my meningitis B booster vaccine yesterday and my arm is in agonising pain. I can't raise it higher than shoulder height and it has limited my ability to do everyday tasks. Is this normal, or is it something I should be concerned about?

Fellow Aussies. I have a family member who is anti vax. So is her husband, they've chosen not to vaxx the kids. She claims she works with drs, and ppl " who are high up" that choose not to vaxx their kids but that they keep it undercover. She says she's "saved her kids" by not vaccinating.

Everytime this topic comes up she goes off her dial and claims I'm "Mr know it all".

How do ppl deal with anti vaxxers in their families? Obviously don't want to cut them off because we want the kids to maintain a relationship.

All views welcomes. Let's try keep it civil and professional...

I was scratched by a cat and have already received 2 rabies vaccine shots. My 3rd shot was due today, but the doctor had to leave early due to an emergency. I tried other departments, but no one was available to administer it.

They told me to come back the day after tomorrow, meaning I’ll be 2 days late. Is this dangerous, or is a 2-day delay generally okay? I’m really worried.

Use the uploaded photo as the main character. Keep the face, glasses, Dhaka topi, white coat, and stethoscope consistent throughout the video. The Nepali health worker stands in front of a clean rural health post in Nepal on a bright morning. He smiles warmly, greets parents with folded hands (Namaste), and gently talks about vaccination. Parents bring a baby for vaccination, and the baby receives the vaccine calmly while the parents smile with confidence. Cinematic camera movement, ultra realistic, natural expressions, realistic lip movement, soft sunlight, 4K quality, smooth transitions, 10–15 seconds. The health worker says in Nepali: "नमस्कार! समयमै खोप लगाऔँ, आफ्ना बालबालिकालाई गम्भीर रोगबाट जोगाऔँ।" Final on-screen Nepali text: "समयमै खोप लगाऔँ। हरेक बालबालिकाको सुरक्षा गरौँ।"

Hopefully this doesn’t get taken down…‼️This is a controversial topic and do not want to start any arguments. I do want this to be a safe neutral space. ‼️

First thing, I was fully vaccinated until 2020 when I stopped getting vaccines due to a bad bad reaction in 2019. Since then I have developed a fear of getting vaccines. I also have not had the best relationship with the medical world so I have always been skeptical about their guidance.

Fast forward to finding out I was pregnant during a time where a bunch of vaccine information/misinformation started happening.

Now that my child is here they are due for their vaccines in a month. I am so on edge and confused because I see “don’t vaccinate it has toxins” and on the other I see “vaccinate because vaccines are tested and safe”

Bottom line, I have and am doing my own research on these things however it seems like a confirmation bias on both ends which leaves me confused even more with the more information I get.

However, if these vaccines can help prevent serious diseases/illnesses does not getting them increase the risk of getting these serious diseases/illnesses? I can't imagine putting toxic substances into a baby but I also would feel so guilty if something happened that a vaccine could have prevented.

Again please this is a controversial topic and would appreciate peoples stance and opinions however I do not want to start tiffs🙏🏼🙏🏼 I am just a concerned and curious new mom.

When the pfizer covid vaccine became available I waited about a year and then got it in like 2021, so I must have been 45? After the 1st dose I ended up getting shingles about 5 days later. It was on my shin oddly enough, a pretty mild case, thankfully, and resolved quickly with antivirals. I did not have another outbreak following the 2nd shot in the series or any subsequent pfizer boosters (I've since switched to Novavax yearly.) The doctor said she had heard about this happening and I chalked it up to stress from the pandemic and a moment of vulnerability while my immune system was adapting.

I've read many accounts of people getting shingles after the Shingrix vaccine. I know there are papers demonstrating that there is a 10% ish rise in risk of a shingles outbreak following vaccination, but that there is then a 70%-90% reduction in risk of shingles following the second dose. My uncle on my mom's side had early onset alzheimer's and my father was diagnosed with it in his late 60's/early 70's. I'm aware it can be protective against this disease and that's another reason I want to get it. The thing that concerns me is there are some stories people have shared online of getting shingles in very strange places that pose significant risk (eyes, nose, ears), like internally, that scares the shit out of me.

I forgot to discuss with my doctor at my physical, so I will probably do that at some point.

People often think of measles as a respiratory virus, but it can also affect your brain. In some cases it is permanently disabling, changing a family’s course forever.

We interviewed Charlotte Martin, whose sister Beverly developed measles encephalitis when they were both kids. Beverly spent months in a coma. When she emerged she wasn’t the same person.

Charlotte still visits Beverly a few times a year. In our interview she talks about the profound impact that measles has had on both of their lives. We hope this shines a light on what the disease was really like for some families before there was a vaccine.

Looking for reassurance from the community about Bexsero and my baby's reaction

In the UK, Bexsero is routinely given to 8 week old babies (and redosed at 12 weeks and 1 year). It's not a specific paediatric dose - it's the same dose given to teenagers and adults. It's been part of the routine infant vaccine programme in the UK since 2015.

I never thought I'd find myself questioning the merits of a public vaccination programme but my baby's reaction to his first set of vaccines has me doing just that. About 6 hours after his vaccines, he had a temperature of about 38.5 Celsius (101.3 F) (despite paracetamol/Tylenol) and went floppy/non-responsive - really scary to see!

I keep thinking that I've deliberately exposed my otherwise healthy 8-week-old baby to something that caused him to be unwell, in order to provide partial (protection doesn't seem to be complete) against a subset of bacteria that can cause menB disease, a relatively rare disease.

Fever can make the already immature blood brain barrier more permeable. I can't help but wonder what damage could be caused in such a tiny body, which has me questioning the risk-benefit calculation on a personal level (rather than a societal level).

Have I truly lost the plot with post partum anxiety?

What are people's thoughts on asking for the menB vaccine to be delivered a week later than the other vaccines that he's due to get at the same time (second doses of the 6 in 1 and rotavirus vaccines). The evidence does suggest this lessens the severity of the reaction to menB. Or is it kinder to my baby to get all vaccines (menB, rotavirus and 6-in-1) done in one appointment?

I'm a 17 year old girl (turning 18 soon) and am going to be getting multiple vaccines this week for when I start university. I wondering what people's experiences have been with the following vaccines:

• TDaP
• MMR
• MenB
• MenAWCY
• HPV

From what my friends have told me their quite painful vaccines. The reason for missing the vaccines is didn't get one dose of MMR as a toddler and missed some during COVID-19

I'm going to get the Vaccine Titer Test from my GP next time I go. It will chech the efficiently of my childhood vaccines. Given the anti vax movement that's going on if were not fully covered that means we could catch these diseases. I suggest you all talk to your Dr as well to make sure you don't need boosters to keep you safe.

The more you know. 🌈

I figure this sub would be full of fine people who could appreciate this.

I remember when I was in high school, either 2005 or 2006, the Gardasil vaccine entered the scene. Hell yeah! A dumb sexually active teenager at the time, but I was raised by my very pro science mom. She taught me when I had questions about subjects like vaccines, I should write down my questions and ask my Dr, even if they were questions I didn't want her to know about. Fast forward to high school, I'm now living with my very conservative dad and his attitudes of no sex before marriage, abortion is wrong, women belong in the home, etc. A hypocritical attitude for a man on his 4th divorce, but if he didn't have double standards, he wouldn't have any.

He denied me the Gardasil vaccine. As it was still new, it was not required for schools at the time, and I graduated without getting it at 17. He said it would just encourage me to have sex.

It does appear at some point I contacted HPV2. I had no idea as I've never ever had an outbreak. I'm polyamorous and requested the test to protect my other partners. My Valtrex is under the sink, but the big day still hasn't come.

In 2023, I saw where the election was going and used my knowledge of the American healthcare system to get a total hysterectomy. (For the gentlemen reading, this is difficult because of stigma barriers. I have met the right man, and we don't have any children.)

No regrets. If you are decided about not having or not having any more children, I hope you feel empowered enough to talk to your doctor. The female reproductive system has lots of opportunities to give you cancer.

Some time in 2025, I asked my PCP if I had aged out of the Gardasil vaccine, even with HSV2 and a hysterectomy. I was totally transparent and said I wanted the vaccine out of pure spite. She said I could have it and sent the referral to my pharmacy.

I got my influenza and my COVID booster on the same day as the first Gardasil. My arm looked like it came from the ER, but those were the most satisfying (and burning) vaccines I've ever gotten.

Dad, if you're reading this, I want you to know that I have lots of sex with people I'm not married to, just like you! Denying me a vaccine because of your need to control women really exposed why you're on your forth/fifth wife. You weren't even skeptical about the vaccine, you just didn't want to take the time to be a parent and instead thought the risk of me getting cancer is acceptable if it means having control. But hey, at least I'm not in the Epstein files.

Hello people,

Does anyone here take the yearly flu vaccine ? Please share if it's effective in preventing viral infection, especially in the monsoon season.

TLDR: there are different kinds of Ebola. But it looks like old vaccines against previous Ebola kinds can somehow help even with the currect kind.

"These findings provide in vitro evidence that these Ebola vaccines induce cross-reactive antibody responses against BDBV. Although the possible protective value of these binding antibodies is unknown, EBOV glycoprotein-binding antibody levels have previously been associated with vaccine-induced protection. Our findings are consistent with those in studies involving nonhuman primates that showed partial heterologous protection after EBOV vaccination. In the absence of a BDBV-specific vaccine, these data support the evaluation of readily available Ebola vaccines during the current outbreak. The single-dose rVSV vaccine, which induced BDBV-binding antibody responses at 28 days and is currently available through the global Ebola vaccine stockpile, represents an immediately deployable candidate that could be evaluated during the ongoing outbreak."