If I was born in the 70's how do I know if I am fully vaccinated against measles?

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I've dug out my childhood vaccination record card and from the looks of it we only had the one measles jab in those days, there's only one line on the card for it. I was vaccinated for measles at the age of 22 months in 1976. Was it a single jab in those days?

Do I need to worry and consider getting a more recent jab. Or is the vaccine still watertight after all these years?

I think you've pretty much answered the question yourself. Measles immunity is generally life-long, or close to it.

Holidays, 70s babies would have been given given the single measles vaccine.

I was born in 1976 and had a single measles jab.

I had mumps as a child, and my rubella status was checked when I was pregnant.

I have just had a blood test to check my measles immunity -that's the only way of being sure.

thanks, NHS website says

We know that people remain immune for at least 30 years against measles, 23 years against rubella and 19 years against mumps.

we never had boosters, but reading other posts, we had 'natural' boosters by people around us having measles apparently. But yes agree with Tabitha8 we would hear about scores of adults being affected. Not read enough to know the demographics of those most affected in Wales.

I have a sort-of related question (sorry if this has been touched on already, I've only skimmed the thread). Due to the recent publicity, it has come to light that neither I nor my husband were immunised against measles when we were babies (both born in 70s). My mum has epilepsy so was advised at the time by her doctor not to immunise me or my sister. I had mumps (the actual illness) as a child and had my rubella jab when I was 12 or 13 (as they used to do for all girls at around that age). DH had other family history reasons and his mum was also advised not to do it by her doctor. We only discovered this yesterday which is a little concerning as we have an 11mo not yet old enough for the MMR and live in Greater Manchester where there has been a warning issued in Salford about a measles outbreak.

DH has booked us in for jabs on Friday which I presume will be MMR as the NHS don't offer single jabs anymore. My question is will it matter that I've already had my rubella vaccination? I'll obviously ask the nurse on Friday, but wondered if anyone here knows.

Just read some of the thread in more detail and think I'm probably due a Rubella booster anyway as it's approx 23 years since I had it. DH actually had what we think was German Measles about 7 years ago (never went to a doctor but my mum had a book detailing childhood illnesses and he had all symptoms) and I didn't get ill at all so that would imply I was still immune then.

shufflehopstep I had my MMR last year despite also having Rubella jab at 13.

Ace name btw, want to change mine to shuffleballchange now! :o

Thanks Panzee

I was born in 1976 in London and I had measles aged 2. So either I wasn't vaccinated or the vaccine didn't work!

Hi, I used to travel the world and visit some very poor countries... I queried with my travel health specialist about measles and she told me that it is likely that I hadn't been given a large enough dose of the measles vaccine (I was born in 74). I went and had a booster "just in case" it does no harm to have extra and I'd rather be safe than sorry! I hope this helps!

If that is true, about the 30 years, why aren't we seeing huge outbreaks of measles amongst all the adults in Wales?

There is among school teachers, well a few teachers have caught it. It is primarily a childhood disease and you have to come in contact with someone who has it.

I was teaching 100 different students in a week in one of my jobs, that's 100 potential measles contacts.

Schools and nurseries are prime sources for passing measles and other infection diseases.

After that hospitals, but you are usually checked before starting work that you are immune to various diseases.