this is all so clinical, but I was wondering, does the Alberta government actually have a record of all our immunizations, or am I going to have to sift through my mother's shoeboxes full of records to find all my information?



p.s. I still don't remember the HepB vaccination. I remember getting the Menningitis vaccination though...

p.p.s. and apparently I HAD the measels when I was little, so it makes me wonder about the efficacy of the shot I was given... but I want to check into that too.

next time I see either of you I owe you a beer!

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Do I have to pay either of you for this medical advice?

Yes.

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Thanks for clearing things up! Do I have to pay either of you for this medical advice?

Actually, yeah, you're right, it was high school. I was mistaken. I was just looking at my immunization record, and I got Hep B Vaccination in 1999. For some reason I thought it was something I got right before med school, but I guess not. It's a three-part vaccination (boosters at 1 and 6 months after the initial shot) and they like to test serology to confirm, but don't require that anymore.

There is no Hep C vaccine. I'd like to make that very clear.

Hep A is the food-borne one, for which you can get vaccinated.

Hep B is sexually transmitted as well as being transmissible by blood (it's the most potent blood-transmissible virus, I believe, of HBV, HCV and HIV).

Hep C is sexually transmitted and blood-borne, was the virus that was at the center of the Red Cross tainted-blood scandal, and we cannot vaccinate for it.

The hep B vaccine is the 3 shots we got in high school/junior high. They implemented it for all grade 5's after my year (last of the bunch to get it later than grade 5). I would know because I have to update my shots every year. They even tested my antibodies to see if I have enough. Hep C isn't immunized/treated for unless you get it. Same as hep A. And actually Al, it wasn't a vaccine per say. If we got into contact with hep A again, we would have to get the shot again...I think. Not sure...

Wiki doesn't help much, because both Hep B and C are candidates for vaccination. And both can be passed on as a STD. I think it was C if Par says we were to early for B. I know I got shots for A (some contaminated superstore food).

I do, when I was getting the shot I was sitting beside this conceited dude. He was flirting with the nurse and was sitting around topless. Yeah not something you really want to remember but it stuck in the head somehow.