Measles … I don’t understand!

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Dd has had the vaccine at 12 months. I’ve been watching news and there is apparently a ‘surge’ in cases now. The second vaccine for it isn’t until she’s 3… does this mean she could well get measles between now and then?

Above in response to @Reugny.

That's interesting, I didn't know that.

As for Wakefield, the autism and MMR thing was definitely a topic before he published his research. It wasn't his idea. He just ran with it to try to make money (I didn't know about his links to the single vaccine, I just knew he was after making money somehow!)

You mention chickenpox, but, if you see the post l made earlier, you will notice that l made the point that it can be a very nasty illness. Most children will have it relatively mildly and recover quickly, but for a sizeable minority of people, especially adults, it can be really dangerous. People have occasionally died from it. As it is, my immunity was already compromised from having flu (the real thing, not just a bad cold) a few weeks prior to catching chickenpox, which is why I was quite as poorly as I was. Later in the year, the ear infections that had plagued me when I was smaller returned with a vengeance, to the point where I had major surgery and a lifetime of hearing impediments. Childhood diseases are mainly fairly mild for most children, but l think we are mistaken if we think that there are no risks or side effects that are possible. There is a reason that most children's illnesses of the past are now vaccinated against and any churchyard will tell its own story.

Yes I agree, my niece ended up in hospital from chickenpox complications and it was horrible. I would fully support the chickenpox vaccination being added to the routine immunisations for children.

I had chicken pox as an adult - felt dreadful. DC had had the CP vaccination (it was a requirement to attend nursery where we had been living) and had a very mild case, just a few red bumps and felt a bit poorly. DC was over it in a couple of days - I was off work for a fortnight.

Many healthy children sadly died from measles.

In this country . Certainly in the 1950s and possibly after that too. I was sent to try to catch the usual childhood illnesses but didn't.

There was a little girl in my village who had brain damage from whooping cough vaccine in the 1970s. Having seen the baby before and after the vaccine there was definitely a huge change.

The second dose is definitely needed to cover the measles and mumps because a bunch of kids my age only had one dose of mmr and then loads of young adults got mumps at uni in the early 2000s and they gave them a second dose of mmr. It was in the news and I remember my uni doing clinics. (I didn’t need it as I’d had mumps as a kid though)

my family suffers from GEFS+ which is a SCNa1 mutation. Mild form is abnormal febrile confulsions which go on past puberty and a lot more than normal ie my ds had over 20 and had his last one at 13

The extreme form is Dravet syndrome which cause seizures in infants that cause brain damage. When researchers looked at genes of children with what they thought was supposed vaccine injury it turned out they had SCNa1 mutations .Sometimes the vaccine can trigger Dravet Syndrome but it does not cause Dravet Syndrome and any temperature will have triggered the onset.

This.

My DD was hospitalised and required life-saving emergency surgery when she had scarlet fever. After she was out of hospital, I bumped into an elderly neighbour who knew DD had been poorly and in hospital but not why. When I said it was because she'd had scarlet fever, the colour literally drained from my neighbour's face. And this was a woman who'd had diptheria as a child.

Absolutely This. My DF who recently passed away aged 87 wore glasses from the age of 5 after his eyesight was severely damaged by measles.

A fact that was omitted from a previous post.

From the NHS page detailing eligibility for the catch-up programme

• "you were born between 1970 and 1990 (as you may not have been vaccinated against all 3 infections)"

ie, you are eligible because it is possible you may never have received a mumps immunisation (not because the single measles or rubella jabs were insufficiently effective)