Was it measles or chicken pox (or both) that we all WANTED to get while we were kids, so we wouldn’t get it as adults?
I had both...................
Brilliant...so then you get shingles.
If that’s a picture of you on your FR page it would have been chicken pox. It looks like you’re younger than me. Measles were already vaccinated against when I was a kid but there wasn’t a chicken pox vaccine yet.
No one wants to get either disease, but after a bout with measles, you'll be immune for life, or so it is said. On the other hand, the chicken pox virus can return later in life as shingles, a much nastier ailment.
Mumps also affects adults much more severely than children. Although a mumps infection during childhood is supposed to bring lifelong immunity, I know a man who had it as a child nd then as an adult.
chicken pox