20 yo DS has mumps and so do 5 of his friends

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All have been vaccinated.

They were all at the same party 2 weeks ago .
He’s really poorly with it 😢

There's actually quite a lot of evidence that links the outbreaks to the rise of the anti-vaxx movement. Maybe look into that before suggesting the more informed amongst us "get back in our boxes"

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Mumps made my second husband totally sterile. He was 10 years old.

For the sensible people here, is it worth getting teen dc re vaccinated? Probably would have to do it privately? Wondering about asking dd if she would like to be.

Is that lawsuit still ongoing as its dated 2012?

I wonder if boosters are available for teens?

Absolutely. It's quite common for health care workers to get a booster as an adult. Good article here:

www.consumerreports.org/mumps/should-you-get-a-mumps-booster/

Immunity for mumps does fade over the years, the virus can mutate and schools and universities are places where it's easily spread.

Is there much we can advise our DC at uni to do to avoid catching it if its going round?

Is that lawsuit still ongoing as its dated 2012?
Yes.

This is going to be a 'thing' now, isn't it - my DS is 13 and there was so much mis-information going around about vaccinations when he was born, it's just hit me that OF COURSE significant numbers of his peers will be unvaccinated. So the herd immunity from that generation is gone?

Can you get mmr top ups?

ONLY SHIT PARENTS REFUSE TO HAVE THEIR KIDS VACCINATED.

That's a bit harsh, everyone does what they feel is best. Most people who do not vaccinate are educated and middle class if that means anything.

88% coverage is still better than 0%.

It's already been said, mumps vaccine is 88% effective, and resistance may wain.

My dad got mumps when it went round when I was a kid (too old for MMR) despite having had it himself as a child - the only way you can know if you have immunity is to be tested against a specific strain - and who's going to do that!

As if I ever needed an illustration of how effective vaccines are, my youngest had the rotovirus vaccine. And whilst I was cursing the effects of it straight after, I was unbelievably grateful when it went through me, DP and DS2 in 48 hours (DS2 still affected weeks later), I fainted on the toilet, it was awful - but little

Worrying. My DD has had every vaccine since birth and is hoping to go to uni in September!!

Educated =|= intelligent.

Can you get mmr top ups?

Yes, no problem at all getting re immunized. See the article I posted above. I have no idea what the NHS will cover though.

With the current measles outbreak in NY lots of people are getting another dose.

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This information is published by WHO, the CDC, in medical papers available on ncbi, etc.

Any anti-vaxxer who claims they are capable of "doing their own research" should be able to find it very easily. It won't support their BS agenda though, and they aren't really interested in facts and actual medical research, so they will ignore it.

My son is 13 and I've just had a letter for me to book his boosters.

Don't shoot me because dd was at the age of the Mmr media shitstorm. So never had mmr.

She had a single measles vaccine and a single rubella one (private). There was no availability of the single mumps vaccine. The doctor told us it was better for her to get it as a child before puberty as the evidence showed that the vaccine can wear off anyway in about 15 years. So kids having mmr were at risk at puberty age of catching mumps even though they'd had the vaccine. Ive no idea if this is still thought to be accurate/true.

I need to get her mmr now, have been meaning to for ages but the flipping gp surgery has a stupid rule that she has to go to the toddler mmr clinic for it, which clashes with school.

i tried to have DS vaccinated for mumps, measles and rubella separately in 2008 when he was a baby.

We did the Measles and Rubella no problem, but the only company in the world (yes world) that made it had its licence removed by the FDA so we had to have the MMR anyway.

Maybe we need a teen/Uni age top up programme, but what we DON'T need is mumps in general circulation.

Lonny my thoughts entirely! I did the right thing despite huge concerns at the time but others have put my child at risk.

I’m of an age where we didn’t have MMR or chicken pox vaccines. Two of my contemporaries separately caught measles and chicken pox as adults, developed serious complications and died, in each case leaving young children. People who blithely rely on the fact that in the past we caught these illnesses and survived are forgetting the reality that too many people didn’t.

You would have to be a bit daft not to get your child vaccinated. However as a pp said, different people’s immune systems work differently and some people either don’t become immune from vaccines (and the disease) or it can become less effective over time. Herd immunity means the disease is not circulating because the number of immune people is above a certain level. So protects everyone.

I've said this before on here but my NDN is an anti vaxxer and thick as shit. The house on the right of her has dc with autism ( very low fuctioning, non verbal etc ) and my house is to the left and my ds has AS and is high functioning so she didn't know this when she first met me.

She said one day that she didn't beleive in vaccines as they cause autism. You can imagine what other neighbour and I said to her. I actually asked her if she would rather her children have autism or risk death from meningitis, she couldn't understand any of it.

Turns out her unvaccinated dd is being assessed for ASD which is at odds with her claims that vaccines cause autism

You can't argue with stupid.

Hope your ds gets well soon op.

Just told dd to ring up the gp tomorrow and get in to baby clinic. She says her best friends brother currently has mumps!

This information is published by WHO, the CDC, in medical papers available on ncbi, etc

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