Mumps across the midwest
Why the heck is this disease making a resurgance? :mad: People, both kids and adults, are getting this crap even though they have had the vaccine.
Cripes, I will be PO'd if I get sick. :mad: WTH? The Mumps Outbreak across the Midwest http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/14374940.htm |
I read this wrong Honeykiss, I thought you wrote Muppets across the Midwest . . which would have been funny.
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If the muppet show were still on TV, I'd watch it religiously.
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The Muppets need a comeback. I like the bell hop rats and the cranky old guys in the balcony
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Those 2 people have resulted in over 800 cases so far! This is very interesting because it does show how quickly things can spread (thinking in terms of a biological terrorism). |
The vaccination is only good for so long; you need a booster every 10-15 years or so to make sure you stay immune.
Most children get the MMR vax before preschool which means they should get a booster before they go to college. It's also affecting older adults (late 40s on up) who never had the vaccine. |
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So it sounds like folks vaccines stopped working and mumps has been hanging out forever in that area, but folks just haven't been re-vaccinated... Also, it is interesting that measles hasn't made a comeback recently either... And since both mumps, measles, rubella, pertussis and diptheria are DNA viruses (I think?) and the vaccination is against a protein marker that doesn't change, then it would very strange that the virus "mutated" in the sense that vaccine protect because that's not how I was taught how it works... Now, tuberculosis is different because it's caused by a bacteria that can become antibiotic resistant... And HIV is different because the proteins on HIV actually do mutate which a vaccine wouldn't work effectively and because HIV is a diploid RNA virus. And chickpox is an alpha simplex herpesvirus--another RNA virus but it's single stranded--so it's structure doesn't change--that's why a vaccine can be made against that. Either way, it stresses the importance of getting vaccinated. Because having the actual disease is disabling. And there are always secondary infections that can occur. Think of it this way, if one virus gets in, it opens the door for other infections to get in that you cannot fight off naturally... |
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I'm thinking that some people just don't become immune, in spite of the vaccine. I had my MMRs when I was supposed to, had a booster in high school because they determined that some batch in the late 60's wasn't good. When I started my last job, they titred us to see if we had immunity to all 3 parts of the MMR. I didn't titre as immune to the Rubeola, so they made me get it again. I told my doc and she ran another test and I still wasn't testing as immune from it. <shrug> Apparently that part didn't work on me, and probably never will.
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Wow I didn't know there is a resurgence of cases of mumps either - I have had a student miss a week of school because she has it!:eek:
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