Re: Country on Mumps Alert as Outbreak Affects Young Adults

[Guest guest]

Oh for GOD'S sakes...

Where is everybody's head.

I grew up with mumps all around me!!!!

I am getting too old for all of this excitement.´What's going to happen when

we really have to cry wolf...Sheeesh

" Country on Mumps Alert as Outbreak Affects Young

Adults "

> " Country on Mumps Alert as Outbreak Affects Young Adults "

> Glasgow Herald (Scotland) (www.theherald.co.uk/news/12543.html) P. 7;

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> Experts have now declared Scotland's outbreak of mumps an epidemic, as

> record numbers of teenagers and young adults have been infected with the

> disease. Scotland usually has about one or two mumps cases per year, but

> since November there have been 173 confirmed cases of mumps throughout the

> country, with many cases concentrated in Glasgow. Health officials say

the

> teens and adults in their 20s who are contracting the illness have not

been

> immunized against the disease because the combination measles, mumps, and

> rubella vaccine was not available when they were young children. Some

> parents have shunned the vaccine in recent years over fears that it could

> cause autism, but doctors are urging them to have their children immunized

> to help curb the spread of the outbreak. Though typically a mild illness,

> mumps can cause complications or trigger other diseases, such as

meningitis.

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[Guest guest]

> " Country on Mumps Alert as Outbreak Affects Young Adults "

> Glasgow Herald (Scotland) (www.theherald.co.uk/news/12543.html)

P. 7;

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> Experts have now declared Scotland's outbreak of mumps an

epidemic, as

so, has anyone died or had serious complications from

this " epidemic " ?

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[Guest guest]

What do you mean by " sensitization " , Sheri. Do you mean the " mild " form of the

disease that follows vaccinating? Does this actually give temporary immunity

then until that " sensitization " wears off??

Kay

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Mumps Outbreak in UK NOT due to decline in MMR uptake!

(although the news portrays as such)

Again, sensitization has worn off and these are teens who are now getting

it when they shouldn't.

Fools messing with the web of life

Sheri