Posted on 04/29/2019 11:04:18 AM PDT by Mariner
April 28 (Reuters) - Adults in the United States who were vaccinated against measles decades ago may need a new dose depending on when they received the shot and their exposure risk, according to public health experts battling the nation's largest outbreak since the virus was deemed eliminated in 2000.
Up to 10 percent of the 695 confirmed measles cases in the current outbreak occurred in people who received one or two doses of the vaccine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The figure illustrates what can happen when a large number of individuals, even those who have been vaccinated, are exposed to the measles. CDC recommends that people who are living in or traveling to outbreak areas should check their vaccination status and consider getting a new dose.
Dr. Allison Bartlett, an infectious disease expert at the University of Chicago Medicine, said the "continued vulnerability to infection" is why high-risk adults such as healthcare workers are routinely advised to get a second dose of the measles vaccine if they have not had one.
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Those born before 1957 are considered universally immune, forever.
True “herd immunity” occurs when people take their kids to measles parties!
Military gets measles, Mumps and rubella vaccinations regardless of prior history.............
Where’s the national conversation and outrage on how many diseases the RAT-supported illegals are bringing into the USA courtesy of Soros-funded organizations, The Pope, Deep State, and the MSM???
What, no conversation yet?
“...Ellis Island was a major point of entry to the US for immigrants. They wanted to make sure the immigrants were healthy both to keep diseases out and to make sure the new immigrants were healthy enough to work and contribute to society...”
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“Those born before 1957 are considered universally immune, forever. “
I hope so. Most of us earned that immunity the hard way.
“Most of us earned that immunity the hard way.”
I went to a measles party when I was 4.
The only thing I remember of the aftermath is that I and my 3 sisters had red bumps all over.
We’re immune.
Well, okay, but, uhhh... If they haven't had one, how will this be their second?
I’ve still got a round scar on my left arm from that shot. I can’t remember what it’s called but you got a bunch of shots all at once with that “gun”.
Yeah, I got that shot as well. Big scary looking stainless steel thing.
Yep. My wife and I got our immunity the hard way.
the hidden nugget: The vaccines do not work nearly as well as advertised.
the other hidden nugget: We’re talking less than 700 people in a country of 330 million. You can probably find a couple of hundred with leprosy if you looked.
RE:Where is the national conversation on the contagious disease from illegals....
Really good topic.
If you can tolerate a Michael Savage show you will hear him about every couple of weeks talk about this. He earlier was practically the only writer discussing it in his books, and on the radio.
He starts with several examples such as antibiotic resistant ones, mutated h1n1 types, then STDs (important if raped by illegals and gang members),the formerly wiped out ones in the US such as measles. Also the ones related to polio style illnesses.
Ellis Island required a medical exam. Obviously hundreds of thousands of illegals at the southern border have NO exams.
The children may be in a classroom in the Northeast, and illegals may ride on a bus or sit in a public library or go to a fast food place——while contagious.
Yes.
The one that might worry me is the Chiken Pox. I never had that, and it’s pretty tough on adults.
I have the round spot but the memory of the gun is forgotten.
Or was it that flashy thingy?
You ‘flinched’, didn’t you?..................
How about me born in 1957?
I never had chickenpox either. While speaking to a family member who is in the medical field, she suggested having a blood titre run for these diseases to see which immunities exist, and which one’s don’t.
She said a lot of older people who insist they never had chicken pox, actually have an immunity. Many of these people had them, but maybe only one.
I hear chicken pox and coldsores are very similar, and that what a person thought was a coldsore outbreak, might actually have been chicken pox. The only way to know is to have that titre run.
When I was expecting my first child, my rubella titus showed immunity. Two and a half years later, while expecting my second child, my titre had changed. I was no longer immune so after the baby was born, I had to have the shot for that.
I don’t think chickenpox titre changes like rubella does, so if you are concerned, get tested.
Up to 10 percent of the 695 confirmed measles cases in the current outbreak occurred in people
who received one or two doses of the vaccine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This means that even though you may have had the vaccine decades ago,
you may still be "at risk" to contract the infectious disease.
Those born before 1957 are considered universally immune, forever.
Defective immunizations after 1957 ?...?
Chicken pox can be serious for adults. And adults who once had chicken pox as children are in danger of getting Shingles.
Anyone who had chicken pox as a child will do themselves a big favor by getting the shingles vaccine. Shingles can be extremely painful and if it spreads to your eye it can blind you.
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