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Three BU students diagnosed with mumps
By adamg on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 5:39am
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way to go, anti-vaxxers!
way to go, anti-vaxxers!
Much as I love to hate Jenny McCarthy, hold on a sec ...
The vaccine is not 100% effective. In the Harvard cases, all of the people who came down with it had been vaccinated.
I wonder that because, as
I wonder that because, as Swirly said and I agree, anyone with a kid in college knows they are not allowed to reside in Dorms, etc without being vaccinated.
There are very strict vac rules for those entering college so it does seem as though there's something else going on here.
Need booster shots
No vaccine is 100% effective, and many need periodic booster shots (like having the tetanus vaccine every 10 years). This may be evidence that the mumps vaccination needs a booster.
international students?
I have heard around campus that international students sometimes fake vaccination records somehow.
I don't know how that would work and In the article I read I didn't see it mentioned if they were international students or not.
Someone on here probably knows more about how feasible that rumor is than I do.
Not sure how it's possible,
Not sure how it's possible, but my daughter works in a clinic and it is very common for international students to get their vaccs at these clinics.
I guess just about anything on paper can be forged now a days.
I think you can get a
I think you can get a religious exemption from being vaccinated which of course is unfair to other students and puts those with a challenged immune system at the greatest risk. Scary, reckless and selfish.
In the town where my siblings and I grew up,
we had some neighbors who lived several houses down the street from us who were Christian Scientists, and therefore didn't get any of their kids immunized against the various communicable illnesses that are prevalent during childhood. One of their kids came down with whooping cough, and the kid whooped and vomited for about an hour during class time. The fact that the school didn't even bother to send her home was rather disgusting, but the fact that the parents felt that strongly that they didn't get their kids immunized against such disease in the first place is even more horrific....and scary..
There has been a law in place for a good many years that requires the parents to allow professional medical intervention for a child who's seriously ill and who's life is in danger. That, imho, is a good thing.
The more people who are
The more people who are unvaccinated, the more Mumps there is in the population to spread to people whose vaccination has weakened (or who can't be vaccinated because they're too young, etc).
That's very true, anon.
Yet, it's the same with all the other vaccines, as well.
There's no guarantee that one won't get mumps if they've been
vaccinated, but at least s/he won't get as bad a case of it in the event that they do come down with the ailment.
I still remember having a double whammy with the mumps on both sides at the same time, as a young pre-school kid, which hurt like hell, but I developed an immunity to it. That was back in the mid-1950's, well before the vaccine for mumps even came out.
Jenny McCarthy is a malicious jerk, plain and simple.
She knows absolutely nothing about science, and the fact that she's being allowed to spread her garbage and whip up fear in parents so that they refuse to vaccinate their kids against deadly but preventable diseases is beyond disgraceful...and disgusting, to boot.
Nobody's saying that that vaccine is 100% affective, but (this bears repeating), at least if one has been vaccinated against mumps or any of those other ailments, they won't get as nasty a case of the mumps in the event that they do come down with the disease.
Should mature adults get MMR booster shots?
CVS sent a blast e-mail offering shots at their stores, but my doctor told me that she doesn't recommend one, since the outbreak appears limited to college students.
No strong recommendation yet
CDC only really recommends receipt of a second MMR dose if you are attending a post-secondary institution, are a health care professional, or plan to travel internationally.
If you have records that you already received two doses, no booster is indicated.
How "mature?"
From what I read, "inactive" (killed) vaccines (as well as live vaccines) were given between 1963 and 1967. The inactive vaccines may be less effective. So, if you were around 1 year old in that period, and you don't know for sure what kind of vaccine you originally received, you might want to get the active vaccine. I'm in that age bracket and got a new MMR shot when Harvard had a measles outbreak a few years ago.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00041753.htm