At the age of 23, Elisabeth Marnik approached her doctor with an unusual request: Vaccinate me. Against everything.
She had never received a single vaccine. But now, angry and defiant, she was turning away from the beliefs of her childhood, instilled by a mother who distrusted science. A doctor for adults doesn’t typically have childhood immunizations on hand, so she made her way to a travel clinic and eventually got all the once-forbidden shots.