I am reading your posts Empire
your wrote:
It's hard to catch TB.
I'm confident they're not at risk.
Sorry, to clarify I mean hard to catch unless you are in very close quarters to someone with it.
Don't bother OP. It's not necessary. Some people adore vaccines and will line up for everything going and that's fine for them. I make my own decisions. Read up on TB and how it spreads. Your children are most likely not at risk.
The majority of people exposed to TB will either fight the bacteria off, or will carry it within their bodies without getting sick and without becoming infectious. This is known as latent TB infection. Most people who get TB have had a prolonged exposure to an infectious person – usually someone in the same household. TB cannot be caught through everyday travel on the bus or Tube, or through spitting.
1.3 The people who are most at risk of developing active TB disease are people whose immune systems have been weakened.....
1.5 There is a clear link between TB and migration.
Shall I tell you why they vaccinate all babies in boroughs with high immigration from India, Pakistan and Somalia? They don't want to stigmatise families from those countries who are living in poverty. TB is considered to be a disease of poverty.
I'm not saying anything outrageous here. Don't take what I'm saying to be in some way racist. It's a simple fact. Cramped conditions and poor health is how TB spreads.
Well, it's a decision for you. When I had my first child we lived in a London borough that offered the vaccination. I turned it down. I felt it was the one vaccine where the decision could be personal and I felt no obligation to vaccinate for herd immunity etc I did the research and felt (still feel) entirely fine about it. Do your research
I recall the other babies in my nct group who did have the vaccine all, without exception, had nasty wounds that took a long time to heal. This would not be my primary reason to refuse it - obviously! But I felt it was a needless thing to do.
^This sort of pc treading on eggshells is precisely why it's given to all babies in those boroughs - even the ones who are never going to catch it. They don't want to be seen to discrimate and label people as being from at risk backgrounds so they blanket vaccinate.
The kids with no links to south east Asia who don't live in cramped conditions with poor ventilation with adults who have TB get the vaccine completely needlessly. Then everyone says how thrilled they are to have been offered it - win win - it's quite absurd. But hey ho, no harm done I suppose. Just let's be accurate about this and not pretend there is any risk whatsoever of catching this at nursery or on a bloody bus!^
So please, where is this detailed evidence-based research that you have done when you were deciding on the vaccine yourself that means the OP should not take up the offer in her NHS primary care trust to have the InterVax brand of vaccine?
All I can see are some opinions of yours, mixed in with a couple of paragraphs taken from a .gov.uk website on catching/spreading of TB. Yes - there is a direct link with migration and TB but why does that negate the possibility of infection with the OP, apart from blatant NIMBYism?