Three … three was all I got in what was called a mandatory booster shot before attending first grade in 1969. It was for polio, measles and chicken pox. Ironically I came down with measles and chicken pox within a few months of getting that booster shot… Thankfully was spared the polio but did know some kids that weren’t.
They worked as designed.
Luckily, you escaped the worst of the polio quackcine.
@cprnicus How interesting. The very day our school was to get measles shots that same year, my teacher noticed spots on my face and isolated me from the other children. My mother picked me up and I was out for the week.
In response to your post, I found this 1971 Canadian Medical Assoc. Journal report very interesting as it describes the measles inoculation program that was in place at the time.
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One can see two familiar manufacturers on the first page:
The immunization regimens in the report had been applied to pre-kindergarten children in the several years prior to 1969 measles outbreaks. I wonder now if either of us had received any of the earlier shots.
The report is not a difficult read and offers great insight with regard to “how did we get here?” in 2024. It seems similar programs were going on around the world.
I don’t recall being very sick and conclude I must have had the same strain as was seen in the Brady Bunch TV episode which aired in 1970. (Some 50 years later and never letting a good crisis go to waste, NPR leveraged this light-hearted show in 2019 to demonize those today who don’t like the shots.)