Health chiefs warn Limerick at risk of measles outbreak due to low uptake of MMR vaccine

7 comments

1. Well this is depressing and not wholly unexpected.

2. I couldn’t get the MMR as a baby because of an allergy related to how it was made in the past.

   I got the measles age 8, only person my age who got it that I’m aware of. It was pretty awful. Hospitalised, quarantined, sore all over. Likely cause the onset of asthma which immediately followed. Plus, the whole guilt of potentially spreading it to a weaker kid who could die from it…

   As an adult, we had a mumps outbreak at work a few years back so I went and finally got the jab (had no kids at the time and mumps can cause sterility in men, in case you didn’t know).

   Please, please, please vaccinate your kids.

3. People choosing not to vaccinate their children against measles might want to have a little gander at an entity called subacute sclerosing panencephalitis and decide whether they’d like to gamble on their children dying one of the most horrifying deaths imaginable. It’s chronic too, often appearing a significant time after the measles infection.

   And that’s aside from what an acute measles infection can do to someone.

   Absolutely bizarre risk to be taking with a very well established vaccination.

4. For anyone who got the vaccine as an adult, did you get sick after getting the vaccine? Also, is there a way to find out if you’ve received the vaccine as a child, or will another dose be harmless?

5. For fuck sake Limerick

   Anyone that doesn’t at least get their kids the MMR vaccine is fucking retarded.

   Just read up on the instances of those diseases before and after the introduction of the vaccine.

   Look up what those diseases do to your kids.

6. We were soooo close to eradicating measles.

7. There were a lot of kids getting chicken pox as well.

   Is the chicken pox vaccine a thing here? I hear americans get it, but I don’t remember it being a thing here, growing up.