How We React to Vaccines

Here are some interesting facts about vaccines:

  • American microbiologist Maurice Hilleman developed eight of the fourteen vaccines that are now routinely administered. He is credited with saving more lives than any other scientist of the 20th century (thanks, Reddit).
  • Polio, which can cause lifelong paralysis, can be prevented with a vaccine that costs only $0.50. In the 1980s, polio paralyzed at least 1,000 children every day all over the world, but today, after international efforts to immunize every child everywhere, 5 million people are walking who would otherwise be paralyzed and the world is almost polio-free. (Source: United Nations Foundation)
  • The United Nations actively backs vaccination campaigns in third world countries, such as this one in Afghanistan.
  • A recent Measles outbreak in Texas is linked to an anti-vaccine Pastor. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Taliban tries to stop polio vaccinations, accusing health workers to be “US spies”.
  • In Israel, a recent government funded emergency vaccination campaign ignited debate on the necessity of vaccination, that even reached the High Court.

And me? I’m just grateful to live at a time when we have advanced medicine and science, without which vaccines wouldn’t even exist.

Table Manners

Remember this when you sit at the table tonight.
Happy holidays y’all!

The Newborn Baby Guide

If any of you wondered why I haven’t published new cartoons lately, it’s because I’ve been busy with the new little addition who joined our family two weeks ago.

She is my second child, a little sister to my older boy.

Like all parents, I spent the last couple of weeks going around telling people “She’s the cutest thing you’ve ever seen”, which is really a parent’s way of saying “She inherited my genes ergo she is superior to any other living creature”.

I’m still getting used to having a newborn again, especially the joy of changing diapers and not sleeping at nights. If coffee prices rise in your vicinity, you now know who to blame.

Anyway, C-Section Comics is officially back, with fresh new cartoons, published regularly. We’re going full speed ahead!

Right after I take a short nap.