Potential Measles Exposure

[CycloneWanderer]

Smallpox left a circular scar on a ton of people around my grandparents age. My grandparents would be in their late 80s today. Grandpa had a dime size scar.

Yeah, and everyone knew the dangers of smallpox to the point where we pretty much eradicated it in human populations for decades.

 

[CycloneWanderer]

That sounds right for that one now that you mention it. It changed, at least in this area, in either the 60s or early 70s from that. I think my sister who is 5 years older than me has that but I don't. For some reason I am thinking Polio has had two vaccines and one was a little higher risk than you would like and the second one was acceptable. Think the first may have had a live agent and the second had a dead agent for vaccines. Like I said it was a long time ago, even before me.

Polio vaccine was created by Jonas Salk. Dude spent like 10 years attenuating the polio virus (i.e., purposefully breeding live virus to be less dangerous to humans) and tested it out on himself and his family first. Then, he gave up the rights to sell it and let everyone use it. National hero if there ever was one.

 

[cowgirl836]

Yes most are but there has been a growing subset of people that have skipped it for their kids. Two "groups" that come to mind are those that bought into "vaccines cause Down syndrome" and some very religious. Herd immunity is compromised when the percentage of unvaccinated increases or at large events that draw one or both of the subset of the population I used as examples.

as well as the reminder that children under 1 (and really a bit beyond that, takes a few weeks to build immunity/get appointments scheduled and attended) cannot be vaccinated for this. And remember that hot minute that everyone thought about washing their groceries in early Covid? Measles is the type where you do want to do that. It can hang in the air for about an hour after an infected person sneezes, coughs, etc. in that area - and a few hours on surfaces. It's insanely contagious. So maybe you didn't attend that revival event but you went through the same airport. Just think of how much space a single contagious person could contaminate in an airport or public area.

 

[BCClone]

Polio vaccine was created by Jonas Salk. Dude spent like 10 years attenuating the polio virus (i.e., purposefully breeding live virus to be less dangerous to humans) and tested it out on himself and his family first. Then, he gave up the rights to sell it and let everyone use it. National hero if there ever was one.

Oh, I agree with Salk and he was fabulous. Like I mentioned before, whatever vaccine I'm thinking of was a first vaccine for the illness, and was replaced by a much more efficient one. I remember reading about it a bit from my mom mentioning decisions her parents had to make with her, (she was vaccinated) and the concerns that were there.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Shingles is a *****

Yes it is

 

[Entropy]

as well as the reminder that children under 1 (and really a bit beyond that, takes a few weeks to build immunity/get appointments scheduled and attended) cannot be vaccinated for this. And remember that hot minute that everyone thought about washing their groceries in early Covid? Measles is the type where you do want to do that. It can hang in the air for about an hour after an infected person sneezes, coughs, etc. in that area - and a few hours on surfaces. It's insanely contagious. So maybe you didn't attend that revival event but you went through the same airport. Just think of how much space a single contagious person could contaminate in an airport or public area.

Not to mention what measles does to your immune system.
It's a hard reset where you lose your memory cells.

Measles and Immune Amnesia | ASM.org

Measles is much more serious than a rash and fever: it also causes immune amnesia and leaves patients especially vulnerable to secondary infection.

asm.org