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The purpose of this blog is to handle all the interesting comparisons I've made between American and German culture as I've been living in Germany. Expatriate life is fascinating. I love, love, love, love, love Germany, German, and Germans!
If you have a question about Germany that I haven't posted about, leave a comment with your website or email address and I'll contact you ASAP.
If you have a question about Germany that I haven't posted about, leave a comment with your website or email address and I'll contact you ASAP.
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7 Kommentare:
I ran into your blog, and since I want to live in Europe next year, found it very interesting. Germany is one of my favorite countries, and I like the whole European lifestyle.
About smallpox vaccinations: I think the disease was largely eradicated, and the potential danger of the vaccination was deemed too much, when the disease isn't a problem anymore. I think I remember reading it is supposedly only alive in labs now.
Interesting blog. I love reading the writings of expats.
Us older folks all have that scar, where we were vaccinated with a tiny amount of live culture. I imagine your dad and mom have one. When I went on my mission, I had live vaccine for yellow fever and typhoid fever, and they both made me deathly ill for about a day each. I don't think missionaries have to go through that anymmore, with dead cultures being developed that still work to immunize you against the disease.
It's the same in Brazil. Everyone has it!
Only people of East-Germany have this scar, because of having older medical equippment.
Marc: my friend from Bavaria also has the scar . . .
The smallpox-thing stopped in the late 1970s/ early 1980s in (Eastern-)Germany. Only if you really wished to get your child the smallpoy shots, they would got it. (that seems to be very bad English, I apologize..)
Kannst auch auf Deutsch schreiben. ;)
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