Funmurphys: the Blog

Public Health Wins Another

Some good news for a change: the US has eliminated Rubella from our shores. I did my part years ago when the first vaccine came out and kids were vaccinated en mass with the new and thankfully no longer used vaccine gun. The day was grim: lined up at a local school with all the other kids from the area, hearing the worker at the start of the proceedure tell us that it would only sting a little while we could watch the kids getting their shots yell and cry from the pain, holding a bloody cotton ball to the their shoulders. That's a day I won't soon forget, but it was worth it.