Lara -- and thinking about my own life...I had the smallpox vaccination to enter 1st grade, we all needed that vaccination back then... And I don't think we've had a small pox epidemic in our lives.... And too even with vaccinations, please can still get issues, like the regular flu. My daughter was about to give her little one a measles vac when the little girl got the measles and my daughter was happy she did/..... We all had those childhood diseases and MOST of us lived on and on.

I wonder if my parents who both died in their 90's ever had childhood vaccinations, if they even had them back in 1915 or so when my parents would have entered 1st grade.....thinking on all the history.