disease in the background contemplation
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burntcopperTuberculosis. Or TB, as we more commonly know it.
Odd thing. In the UK, it's an ever-present thing. Not an 'argh, we have contagion', but everyone knows about it. Unless you're an immigrant, everyone - and I mean *everyone* has the inoculation scar on their arm they got at 15, which was bloody painful and for most people, puss-ridden until it healed. We learn maybe a tiny bit about it in school as one of the diseases of history, but that's about it. The most we really know about it is that it's a disease to be - not wanted. Like measles, but more severe, and everyone can find their TB / BCG scar in two seconds.
I know in America you don't get inoculated, so how is it treated/viewed there?
Odd thing. In the UK, it's an ever-present thing. Not an 'argh, we have contagion', but everyone knows about it. Unless you're an immigrant, everyone - and I mean *everyone* has the inoculation scar on their arm they got at 15, which was bloody painful and for most people, puss-ridden until it healed. We learn maybe a tiny bit about it in school as one of the diseases of history, but that's about it. The most we really know about it is that it's a disease to be - not wanted. Like measles, but more severe, and everyone can find their TB / BCG scar in two seconds.
I know in America you don't get inoculated, so how is it treated/viewed there?
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Date: 2007-02-21 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-22 12:37 am (UTC)I was never out of the country so was never pushed to get it earlier.
That & the fact that the borough me & my sister lived in for a couple years were really shit about immunising kids.