Can you document this claim of most adults having zero-titer measles because I believe this may be one of those factiods not based in fact from a pseudoscience website.
I stay away from psuedoscience websites.
It was a document on the CDC website somewhere. They’re working on mandating MMR boosters for the entire population every 2-3 years. Like they’re working on for the TDaP boosters for the entire population. They’re just working on nailing down the rationale they’ll be using.
The rationale is that most immunity from any vaccine is gone after 10 years so boosters, population wide, are needed on a 2-5 year basis to ensure population wide immunity, ongoing.
When was your last MMR booster? I had FIVE of them in a fairly short period of time. 1yr after the last one I had ZERO titer for Rubella. Hey, maybe I just need to get one every year. Or month. Surely that would work!
Uh. Yeah.
Me.
I lost my shot records. When I got married to my soldier we were to be stationed in Germany. As my shot records were in the wind, I had no records of vaccinations. Rather than go through the entire series again, all I had to do was get the titers, then I would be good.
All my titers were negative. This is after my college went through a measles outbreak and I had to get a booster to move into the dorms.
So fully vaccinated. Booster at 18. Still negative titer.
I had to go through the entire series again, as if I’d never had vaccinations. It took a full year. (I eventually found my records - tucked in a box with baby photos - and they let me go to Germany, on the condition that I completed the vaccinations.)
Now how rare is that? How many people lose their records and need to even get the titer done to move to a foreign country? What are the odds that I’d even be tested?
Yeah. It can happen. I’ll do the homework to see if *anyone* has even looked into the broader implications when I get the chance.