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@luckytran@med-mastodon.com10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system:
The Measles vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Tetanus vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
Selfishly, I wish-beyond-wish that there were some tick-disease vaccines out there:
Many colleagues / families of colleagues in the NYC area have been taken out by:
Lyme
&
Babesiosis
@projektionsyta @atthenius @luckytran https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=27 it doesn't look like it's easy to get in most EU counties. But if I misinterpreted this table, let me know.
I don't understand the table. But this vaccine is super easy to get in Sweden - I don't know about other countries.
@projektionsyta @chx @atthenius @luckytran it's also supported by some insurance companies in Czechia -- they will repay you the vaccine cost, but before that you basically have to find&organize it yourself. OTOH I never had big issues with that.
@chx @projektionsyta @atthenius @luckytran The table illustrates national policies for mandatory and recommended vaccination (in general or for specific groups). The vaccine is likely available in countries with no specific policy set. The site is EU- specific.
@chx @projektionsyta @atthenius @luckytran it is also covered in Germany and in Belgium. The only issue is you have to get three shots spaced by one year or so, it is not an easy vaccine to get done properly!
And then you need to "refill" with certain intervals. But my vaccinator sends a reminder as part of the service.
@atthenius
I remember a friend in NYC getting Lyme disease over 30 years ago. Don't know if they got it in NYC.
I was from upstate NY and was already familiar with checking for fleas and ticks to avoid it.
If there are no vaccines I hope the detection and treatment has improved.
Lyme Disease is caused by a bacterium. Vaccines are effective in virus antibody production, not so much bacteriae.
'As of 2023, clinical trials of proposed human vaccines for Lyme disease were being carried out, but no vaccine was available. A vaccine, LYMERix, was produced, but discontinued in 2002 due to insufficient demand. There are several vaccines for the prevention of Lyme disease in dogs' 
-see canine hemangiosarcoma - Retrievers
@aquarius1842 @mdd @atthenius @luckytran thank anti-vaxxers and similar grifters for the downfall of Lymerix, because they started suing and saying they had problems from it, without evidence and despite the FDA/CDC *looking* for evidence. [Same Wikipedia article, under Vaccination -> lymerix]
@aquarius1842 @mdd @atthenius @luckytran which has been said multiple times up and down thread, now that i look. We're all grumpy about it.
@atthenius @luckytran I don't think its selfish to want to prevent a deadly disease
@cinebox @atthenius @luckytran Agreed, and the vaccines are in development from what I've heard. Climate change has made Tick related diseases much more common, especially in places they were historically infrequent. This is a reasonable and important ask. Similar to the UTI Vaccines in the USA, I'm hoping not much longer.
@atthenius @luckytran My step-sister has just been diagnosed with Lyme's and I don't think she realises how long she's likely to be ill.
What's really incredible is how she got it: a bird dropped a tick it was trying to eat and it landed on her neck!
@luckytran not fogetting the RSV and Shingles vaccines.
@luckytran And the shingles vaccine.
@luckytran I'm an #ActuallyAutistic person, and I approve this message 
I'll see your ten and raise you flu and shingles vaccines.
@luckytran Doctors don't* want you to know this one weird trick!
*we do. We absolutely do.
@luckytran @jstatepost They won’t give me Shingles or Pneumonia since I’m not 50 yet. They will give me mpox though.
@luckytran I wish I could get the Shingles vaccine, but they're only giving it to the over -65s
@luckytran I should get my travel vaccine boosters!!! aaaa!!
I wish they offered tick bourne encephalitis vaccine in North America, having to go to Europe just for that is annoying :(
@luckytran This doc knows what's up.
@luckytran "Actually, you DON'T gotta catch 'em all!"
@luckytran Only missing #7
@Clarity @luckytran Yeah, wasn't subsidised nor encouraged for boys and men when I was still in the recommended age group. But got the rest, including recent MMR as I think they didn't do a teen shot for boys at the time.
@luckytran can't I just rub tea tree oil on everything instead?
@luckytran Only don't be like me in 2020 and try to get them all in the shortest window possible (reasoning that if I did get sick, it wouldn't be from something I could have prevented with a vaccine). My immune system was so hyped up and confused that I got hives at the drop of a hat, once had a full anaphylactic reaction that put me in the hospital (cause still unknown), and a visit to an allergist showed I was allergic to pure water (usually the control when testing skin allergens).
...I got better
People tell me I should not wear the FFP2 mask because it prevents me to train my immune system.
Thank you, but my immune system is already busy:
* dealing with allergens in the environment
* cleaning up cells that could become cancer
* bacteria and fungi in the environment
* small amounts of virus that I cannot avoid completely
* the yearly vaccines that I take
A consideration for canine annual vaccination - now recommended for 3 year interval - is the increased incidence of spleen hemangiosarcoma . The spleen is part of the immune system.
LIke in humans, one vaccination may be enough for life-long protection w/o stressing the immune system.
@luckytran why not rabies or fsme?
@zeri @luckytran I heard rabies was ticking up in India and … Icr if it was Australia or the western US, but yeah.
Rabies is terrifying. Idfk why we don’t make it more widely available.
@MxVerda @luckytran they are not spread human to human. So 300 rabies cases in India are 300 deaths (I think mortality is virtually 100%) but the numbers are never going to match an exponential function. And yes if you are at risk of being bitten by wild animals (e.g. veterinarians) you really should get the jab. I have fsme because I live in an area were many of the ticks spread this shit and the symptoms of an inflamed brain are quite unpleasant.
and the rabies vaccine is effective given *after* the bite, and expensive, so at least in the US unless you are a vet or zookeeper or animal control of some sort they expect you to get it after the fact.
AO 
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Also the whooping cough vaccine
@luckytran I wonder how many antivaxers wear glasses and/or use joint supports and can't see the idiocy of their arguments against vax.
@luckytran immunotherapy would help
@luckytran One incredible way to boost your immune system is to not believe any of the horseshit espoused by RFK Jr...
@luckytran
Reminds me. I need to ask my GP about TDAP and pneumonia. I had the former like, 11 years ago. No idea about TDAP.
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My grandmother and uncle were both taken out in part by pneumonia. Given they both also had COPD and I've never smoked, but still. I'd rather not find out how it is.
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Fake
Everyone knows bleach is the bomb!
Orange Cheese Man never lies and he is THE BEST DOCTOR THAT'S NOT A DOCTOR.
HE DOES THE BEST NOT DOCTORING THAT'S EVER BEEN DONE! YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE!
"Reality doesn't care if you believe in it or not."
SearingTruth
@luckytran As the Global Warming component of Climate Change continues, frozen tundra and ancient ice sheet melting are and likely will continue to release ancient microbes, bacterium, etc., quite possibly leading to diseases we've never heard of or seen before, and possibly releasing stuff we thought went extinct. We're going to need much better resourcing and funding, and the whack-a-doodle lunatics Trump is putting in charge represent an incredible threat to public safety.
@luckytran Moreover, the anti-intellectual movement we're seeing grow in this country will only add fuel to the fire by sabotaging future generations, helping ensure they are less capable than those who came before. Religion, pseudo-religious-pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, etc are going to impair future generations' capacity for achievement, which in addition to all the lamentable impacts it will likely have on medical studies and developments, will make it difficult for the U.S. compete.
@luckytran also boosters
@luckytran I'd kind of like it if we could add Lyme vaccine to the list.
@luckytran how about the flu vaccine?
@luckytran “Read about this one weird trick to boost your immune system…”
@luckytran And influenza! Super important and so often neglected.
@luckytran when will my two under five year olds be able to get the Covid Vaccine here in NZ? I’d run out and get them both jabbed in a heartbeat if they were allowed like they are in other countries.
Ich bin gegen COVID geimpft und überlege nur noch, eine Impfung gegen Gürtelrose durchführen zulassen, denn DIE brauche ich nicht noch einmal ..
Und Tetanus wäre 2025 mal wieder fällig - vor allem wegen des Gartelns.
Alles andere lass ich weg.
Ansonsten hab ich ein super Immunsystem und war seit 2 Jahren nicht ein einziges Mal krank.
Bin 74.
@IngridAusOL
Ich auch. Bin 70.
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@luckytran pneumonia?? Didn't know that one existed. Got the rabbies one though... not trying to impress you or anything...
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I'm missing HPV and Hep B from your list, but I've had the Shingles vaccine (2 variants) and RSV vax.
I've had the real OG 'vaccine' (made from cowpox) twice long ago, which is kind of comforting in these days of monkeypox reports.
I've also had Diphtheria and Pertussis boosters fairly recently, not just the decennial Tetanus boosters.
And about 40 years of annual flu vaccines, so I've probably got antibodies to strains that don't even exist any more
@luckytran
Been studying many of those vaccines for 20 years. I'm not sure they all simply "boost immunity", certainly not all in the same way, for the same duration and with the same price to pay in terms of possible individual and societal side effects. I tend to think there's much cleaning up to do in that matter, both healthwise and business-wise. I agree with RFKjr's precautionary approach. Note: I don't care about Trump -- I rather believe in our free speech, and my right to be wrong.
RFK is a blithering, grifting, scumbag
@ClintonAnderson
Aren't we all...
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