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Why just the girls? What vaccine was it back then--was the HPV vaccine around then?

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Rubella, I am pretty sure. Must have been 74.

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But why we're only the girls vaccinated then, for German measles? Or did they just do the girls one day and the boys another day question?

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I am sure it was only girls. Not sure why.

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OK, some research shows why it was given to girls at puberty. Although rubella is mild for most people, if a woman gets it while pregnant it can death of or birth defects in her child.

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Not rubella then--it was probably the cooties vaccine.

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