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Our blog represents the voices of people who rely on vaccines for safety and health, people who have suffered the consequences of living without vaccines, and those who want to speak up to encourage others to get vaccinated. Read and share their stories, or contact us to share your story.

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Here’s What I Know About Vaccines. Trust Me. I’m a Goldendoodle.

My name's Harvey! Here's the story of how one of my friends wasn't vaccinated and got kennel cough.

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Hep B Affected Us For Generations

It took me a while to see Hep B for what it was: an intergenerational problem for my family.

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I’m beating the odds after cancer. Vaccines help me do it.

I’ve overcome so much medically. But I can’t beat measles and other diseases on my own.

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I Can’t Be Vaccinated. That’s Why I Need You to Be.

Every time I get sick, my immune system treats it as something it's never seen before—a complete unknown.

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I Was Four Years Old When Measles Collapsed My Left Lung

Measles vaccine became widely available two years later, when I was in first grade.

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Love Vaccinates: Faith and Community Immunity

Love your neighbor as yourself, including by protecting them from disease. Three faith leaders speak on the importance of vaccination.

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I See COVID Through Memories of the Summer of 1953

The pandemic took me back to when polio stalked every neighborhood in America.

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A Vaccine Can Prevent This Cancer

The vaccine didn't exist when I was a teen. I truly wish it had been available, because cancer was brutal.

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Children Paid the Price: Growing Up Unvaccinated in a Faith Healing Community

If somebody had told me they were vaccinated, I probably would have told them that was a sin.

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My Classmates Thought I Was Drunk. I Had Meningitis.

I was eleven years old, and in the early stages of meningococcal meningitis. Nobody recognized how sick I was.

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My Newborn Caught Whooping Cough in the Pediatrician’s Waiting Room

Whooping cough? I didn't think people got that anymore. Our daughter was a five week old newborn.

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From Unvaccinated to Vaccinated: My Reckoning with The Wellness World

My parents were deep in the wellness world, and there was a lot of fear-mongering about vaccines

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