[Red Badger]

I had measles when I was maybe 5 or 6. I barely remember it..................

[grania]

I had measles when I was 5 or 6. I barely remember it...

So did I. It was a right of passage. It was thought back then that having gotten these childhood diseases and developing immunity is just the way it is. People actually stayed home when they were sick. I remember ice cream and reading books I liked and doing puzzles.

The dread diseases were TB, polio, and malaria. That's because those were the diseases that killed or permanently disabled a person. In those cases, a vaccine makes sense.

[ErnBatavia]

Me too, and I was under the impression that you only get it once......but then I came down with Rubella while on Mess Duty at Camp Pendleton in 1966, and spent Christmas in the Isolation Section of the base hospital.

I was "salad man" which consisted or rolling up the sleeves and hand/arm mixing up huge plastic tubs of greens -- I'm sure I infected half the Marines stationed around that messhall.