Comments on: Did You Get Your Mumps Vaccine?

By: Alan

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:46:16 +0000

There, fixed a few of the dumber things I said, but the point still stands, mumps will fuck you up and we shouldn’t get it. There are extremely stupid people who are actively engaged in turning the clocks back.
I’m not sure how they think its spreading, but I”m guessing its got something to do with herd immunity (vaccines only work if almost everyone has them) or its moving through the babies who haven’t been vaccinated yet. I’ll look it up later, its saturday night.

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Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:09:02 +0000

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By: Ian

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:24:20 +0000

There is a large campaign to move against vaccinations, which is the real issue. They claim a poorly (or un)supported link between vaccines and autism.

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By: Lynda

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:19:56 +0000

Oh, and the news article at the science blog link you offer has a rather inane article being quoted. Firstly, I could care less if some loonie religious idiots choose to spread the mumps amongst themselves (hey, we can only hope they sterilize themselves!) But to say, “there is some evidence that it is moving out of the faith-based communities and into the broader communities” seems nonsensical given that immunization amongst babies and school children is almost 100%. Unless you aren’t immunizing your kids, who’s getting the mumps outside the religious groups who don’t immunize? And if it’s true, then immunization education needs to be reviewed if they’re missing people who have no objections to it.

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By: Lynda

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:06:29 +0000

While I’m rather in agreement with your sentiments regarding those who choose not to vaccinate…

Your reference to mumps and death are very exaggerated and rather sensationalistic. Death from mumps is extremely rare so I’m sure your parents didn’t have friends die of it. Your parent’s friends may have been dying from measles (again, rare in industrialized Canada) but by 1964 the vaccine was readily available (mumps, 1967 and the combined MMR vaccine 1972). The worst that can happen with mumps is if an older male is infected; it can possibly lead to sterility. I had mumps when I was little which proves that either I am very old (which I’m not) or that you are very young because you’d never heard of it. Unfortunately, I gave it to my Dad which was quite the thing to see. I have a sister so it couldn’t have been that bad. ;o)

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By: Roy

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:16:23 +0000

I got mumps when I was a kid…even though I had the vaccine for it. It was painful, but medicine came to the rescue!

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