I've got measles, is it going round ATM?

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I found out I have measles last week, and I've been confined to my house ever since (I'm 51 and assumed - wrongly it seems - that I was vaccinated when I was a kid). I'll be able to go out tomorrow.

I'm in London. Does anyone else know anyone else who has measles at the moment?

I'm not in london but I do know there are outbreaks at the moment in different parts of the country. I work in a healthcare setting and all the clinical staff of certain ages are going to be vaccinated.

Definitely outbreaks in secondary school kids round Croydon
Not sure about elsewhere

I currently have scarlet fever which is doing the rounds in London along with Measles according to the doctor who treated me. Both have spiked in the last quarter but they don't know why, apparently.

There are sadly waves sweeping the country and beyond due to the ridiculous hysteria surrounding MMR.

So sorry you’ve been poorly. Hope you’re on the mend now.

There is an outbreak and warnings at nursery in sussex. Nursery have said that it is linked to an air steward catching it and spreading it at the airport.

And measles are so f---k contagious. If a person with measles is in a doctors waiting room for 10 minutes. 90% of the other people in there who haven't had measles or been vaccinated, will catch it too. People think and soo what? So you get a bit of fever and some red spots. But 2 promille die, another 2 promille loose their hearing and you can get paralysed and all sorts of nasty stuff, because measles can attack the brain.

We've moved this thread to General Health at the OP's request.

Hope you feel better soon OP

It's incredibly contagious and people are stupid and selfish. I walked past a young lad with them on Saturday and had to double check I was seeing what I thought I was.

Manchester centre bus stop at 2pm on a Bank Holiday Sat. Everyone at the bus stop, everyone in both buses (in and home) and God knows how many more, exposed and if not vaccinated, probably infected

Yes I have heard of measles cases in both Surrey and West Sussex, along with Scarlet fever as another poster mentioned.

Public health announcement in Medway recently for measles.

Stupid question but how do you know it's measles and not something elose?

And not chicken pox etc?

There’s an outbreak in Bristol.

I'm South Warks & we have a notice up in our surgery & in the school newsletters to check that all vaccines are utd as they've had lots of confirmed measles cases. Dc3(5) was asked to have hers again as, according to the nurse, a handful of the cases have been from her birth year with red books filled in as the vaccine given (that's just our area though I think).

Thanks for moving the thread, Mumsnet :-)

allthegoodnames I know it's measles because my GP confirmed it.
I had chicken pox when I was 18, and wouldn't wish it on anyone. I was very ill, and I had scarlet fever last year, so I already knew it wasn't either of those.

Mumminmum God yes; when i called my GP to ask what to do about this rash that had suddenly appeared all over my face neck and chest, they told me to come in immediately. I did ask if that was wise given that it was so contagious but they insisted, so I went. I wore gloves and covered myself up, so I hope that helped. The GP said it was definitely measles, and said he would report it.

The only place I come into contact with lots of people is on the very crowded tube line in the morning, so I'm certain that's where I picked it up. Unfortunately, there's a good chance I passed it on before the rash appeared.

Vaccinations don't work 100% OP.
Apparently there's a few outbreaks but nothing at all near me locally. Not sure where

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I wonder how many people who have caught/spread it were like me, and didn't know they hadn't been vaccinated when they were children? I had mumps at one point, and whooping cough, I remember having those.

I didn't have the BCG at school (we moved around a lot); OMG, I hope the next thing I catch isn't TB :-( rushes off to check

The mmr vaccine wasn't routinely given in the UK until the late 1980s. I had measles as a child in the early 1970s, it was really common.

Hope you've feeling better soon OP.

Thanks Ellen: good name!

The single measles vaccine was introduced in 1968, but only to babies, I think. Its take up wasn't very high, though. I didn't have it, obviously. I can remember having a diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus jab along with polio vaccine on a sugar cube as a pre-schooler. The doctor gave me the plastic syringe minus needle to play with. Funny what you remember.

The government publish the number of measles cases, along with all other notifiable diseases, on a weekly basis:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/notifiable-diseases-weekly-reports-for-2018

You won't be appearing in them though, OP, until the results of your swab are back. When in known outbreak, not everyone is tested and can be included in case figures on basis of clinical presentation. That doesn't happen when cases are still in single figures (which is what they were in any/all London boroughs last week.

It's pretty normal and frequent for there to be small outbreaks - essentially isolated cases that only spread to the unimmunised or those for whom the immunisation did not take, with the 'herd' essentially stopping it spreading. It's when the number of cases is >30ish gets worrying.