🧵 If you had measles as a child, the evidence seems to show that you are protected for life. 1/4 - ThreadSky

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who.int • 10 days ago

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If you had measles as a child, the evidence seems to show that you are protected for life.

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who.int•10 days ago

There is one caution however: Unless there was laboratory testing at the time or some other way of proving it was actually measles, it is often hard to know whether it was really measles, however much your mother or your family doctor insists that it was.

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who.int•10 days ago

There are many causes of fever and rash in childhood, and for this reason public health authorities often don’t rely on a history of measles to prove protection for certain groups such as health workers and people who have been exposed to measles.

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who.int•10 days ago

Some countries do have policies for assuming everyone born before a certain date is already immune, depending on whether or when measles has been eliminated in that particular setting.

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lila7.bsky.social•10 days ago

So, given that we don’t really know which childhood illnesses we had (often didn’t see a doctor, you don’t need a doctor to prescribe calamine lotion and recommend a fortnight in bed)
shouldn’t we be offered the MMR jab whatever our age?

minesagin.bsky.social•9 days ago

I’m in my 60’s and had measles when I was 6, so did my 2 year old sister. It was horrible, she has had life long ear problems requiring many operations. At the age of 17 I had measles for the 2nd time with a severe chest infection as a complication. Both times confirmed by our GP.

minesagin.bsky.social•9 days ago

I’d like to add, my children have been vaccinated also my grandchildren. The only vaccines I received as a child were TB and Polio. I know what measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox and scarlet fever feel like - I didn’t want my family to go through that when there is an alternative.

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