Whooping Cough in Europe

I was definitely vaccinated and I was born in the 1960s. I still got whooping cough though, when I was about seven (I can remember my parents talking to each other and saying no it can't be, she's had the vaccine, and then the doctor coming and saying in his very condescending tone "it's what we call whooping cough"). It was very bad, and for months afterwards I couldn't run or laugh without coughing. But maybe it would have been even worse if I hadn't had the vaccine.

 

We only just had running water @Fat Controller

I had whooping cough as an adult - late 20's. Not funny at all. But then I also had chicken pox when I was in my early 40's - that was even less funny.
I was born in '57, but we obviously didn't get any vaccine for the cough. I don't remember it anyway.

 

I did wonder why i was so think

 

My younger sister (14 years younger) didn't get the vaccine because of the brain damage concerns.

 

The outskirts of my town blend into the nearest village. You can tell when you've reached the village because the street lighting stops.

 

I think we had Polio vaccine on sugar cubes in school.

 

I remember that too, and there used to be a circular mark on my upper left arm where I had a vaccination for something - I think that was the whooping cough and diptheria one.

I remember in the early 60s everyone had to be vaccinated for small pox (I think it was)
my mother and I had no side effects but my father and brother were very ill after it. My brother was about 7 or 8 yrs old and he couldn't get out of bed for days. I was early teens and didn't feel unwell at all.

 

I have/had that too! If you got a tan, it really showed up glowing!

 

I think that came out after I had had mine as I seem to remember having two injections a year or so apart along with the diphtheria.
I don't remember small pox being compulsory but I do remember we all got screened for TB, and most got the jab, I ended up just getting an X Ray.

 

For me it would have been 1959-1962.

 

Had my second shingles jab last week they don't really worry me and I felt this one ,nurse said it had just come out of the fridge and can be more sensetive when it's cold
So next time I shall make my appointment for later on in the day !!!!!

A week later I still know about it or maybe it's something to do with me lugging pots of me planted Dahlia tubers around

 

I had mine pretty young, kids were dropping like flies I remember being told would have been before 1960.

 

Yes, and some kids would get theirs and then run around to the end of the queue for a second helping!