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.
In my day we WANTED to get measles. Well, our parents wanted us to. At least that was drilled into me. There was a big “fear” thing about entering adulthood having not been immunized by getting it as a child. But I’m 65.
I learned from my 60-yr-old cousin who, like me, had Chickenpox as a kid, got the shingles vaccine a few years back. Last Summer, she started getting vertigo and throwing up. It got so bad, she had to have someone stay with her and was thinking she would need to go to assisted living. Finally, one of the doctors knew that the shingles vaccine presents the virus presenting as shingles, but will often go into the ear.
I learned from my 60-yr-old cousin who, like me, had Chickenpox as a kid, got the shingles vaccine a few years back. Last Summer, she started getting vertigo and throwing up. It got so bad, she had to have someone stay with her and was thinking she would need to go to assisted living. Finally, one of the doctors knew that the shingles vaccine presents the virus presenting as shingles, but will often go into the ear.