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Correct, but she would be protected if all the other adults were vaccinated. We did a very good job over the past 60 years of almost eradicating measles and it
by giarc 11y ago
Correct, but she would be protected if all the other adults were vaccinated. We did a very good job over the past 60 years of almost eradicating measles and it's only be recently that cases have appeared in groups of anti-vaxxers and spreading to those too young to get the shot.
- moron4hire 11y agoThat's unfortunately not a good assumption to make.
- giarc 11y agoTechnically it would have been a good assumption up until recently. Now parents need to consider whether they would like to fly with a child. I recommend they use readily available data to determine if the risk is elevated due to the city they are flying into or out of.
- cmdrfred 11y agoIf I ruled the world: "Oh you don't trust technology and aren't vaccinated? Fine, don't get in that metal tube and fly at 500 miles per hour."
- moron4hire 11y agoChrist. Then technically it's not a good assumption today.
- giarc 11y agoWhat? 10 years ago when measles was only affecting very tiny populations, your risk of getting on a plane with one of these people was near 0. Now with the outbreaks in California (and many other places around the world), the chances are getting higher and higher. Therefore decision making will have changed.
- moron4hire 11y agoNo shit. That's what I meant. You got pedantic about unrelated details about the past.
- giarc 11y agoSorry I'm not following... what are the unrelated details about the past?
- alextgordon 11y agoThe situation with chickenpox is actually quite complicated. The vaccine is not routinely offered in the UK. They say something interesting, which is that adults get a boost to their immunity whenever they are exposed to the virus (as most parents are). If children were vaccinated, then adults who had had chickenpox would not receive this boosting effect and it could cause a higher incidence of shingles in the adult population. Because chickenpox is mostly harmless in childhood, they reason that it's better to just hope that as many children as possible catch it, and vaccinate the adolescents that don't. http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/chickenpox-vaccine-questions-answers.aspx#routineschedule http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/chickenpox-v...
- giarc 11y agoThere is a shingles vaccine now though. Basically a booster.