Wow we have all heard about the measles outbreak

[gopiscrap]

now there is a mumps epidemic at the U of I in Moscow, ID and at WSU in Pullman. Plus some one was diagnosed in the Pittsburgh public schools with TB...I think it's time we tighten up our vax requirements.

[Lars39]

1. And it is possible to catch more than one at the same time.

One of my siblings had mumps and measles at the same time.

[gopiscrap]

2. That's gotta seriously suck

I had the measles as an infant which turned into encephalitis and I am still saddled with some of the effects of that 57 years later

[Lars39]

4. They thought he was going to die at one point.

No lasting symptoms, except being kinda scrawny.
Sorry you're still dealing with it this far out. Glad you're speaking out. Every voice is needed.

[GreatGazoo]

3. time for single payer and better healthcare in general

[daredtowork]

5. if only

people could get away with making a habeus corpus refusal of a needle stick of pharmaceuticals in exchange for the health care benefits they need. But no, scare tactics will be used to overcome civil liberties and force stuff on people against their beliefs. The error won't be seen until the shit hits the fan, and we'll all get to read the historical analysis of what went wrong later.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

13. You mean like the mandatory

Polio and smallpox vaccines that irradiated smallpox completely, and nearly wiped out polio worldwide?

History is on the side of vaccines. Also, your right to be sick with preventable infectious diseases ends where my body begins. You're part of the herd, act like it.

[daredtowork]

17. I'm not the one you have to convince

As I've said repeatedly here - I have my vaccines. If I had children, I'd get vaccines for my children. I support vaccinations.

But I'm also realistic about the public distrust of science, and I'm a child of the era where that blossomed. All I see is lawsuits and political disaster coming out of an attempt to force the matter on people whose aren't on board yet.

[gopiscrap]

6. I TOTALLY AGREE!!!

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Thanks, anti-vaxxers!

[brewens]

8. Great. I'm going to both of those universities this week doing blood drives. I wonder how likely

it might be that they would cancell one or both?

[gopiscrap]

9. I went to Wazzu

so this caught my attention....did you got to either of the school? I lived in Boise for awhile

[brewens]

10. No, but I live in Lewiston, ID and have been on both campuses many times. n/t

[greatlaurel]

11. A mumps outbreak at a university is not good.

http://www.cdc.gov/mumps/about/mumps-facts.html

Most people with mumps recover fully. However, mumps can occasionally cause complications, and some of them can be serious. Complications may occur even if a person does not have swollen salivary glands (parotitis) and are more common in people who have reached puberty.

Complications of mumps can include

Inflammation of the testicles (orchitis) in males who have reached puberty, which rarely leads to sterility
Inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) and/or tissue covering the brain and spinal cord (meningitis)
Inflammation of the ovaries (oophoritis) and/or breasts (mastitis) in females who have reached puberty
Temporary or permanent deafness

The consequences of failing to vaccinate are far reaching. Mumps is not a disease with which to take chances. I recommend having young adults immunization titers for MMR, especially for young men, especially if you have health insurance. Ohio has a lot of these anti-vaccine people, so I had my son's titer for MMR checked this fall.

[laundry_queen]

12. A month or so ago

there was a mumps outbreak in the NHL - a bunch of hockey players were coming down with it, some who had been recently vaccinated. So it's definitely circulating currently. It was big news here in Canada, as one of the biggest hockey stars came down with it as well.

But I don't think TB is in the general vaccination schedule...so that one's probably not related to vaccination rates.

[3catwoman3]

14. The US does not...

...do the TB immunization.

[laundry_queen]

16. Thanks

I was pretty sure the schedule is similar to the Canadian schedule (although it can vary by province, I'm nearly 100% sure none have TB as a routine immunization).