Nope.
I have a friend who was vaccinated against measles as a child and again in the 1980’s. She was recently tested and found to have no immunity to measles at all so she just got re-vaccinated. I wonder how many people in their 50s are walking around and assuming that because they were vaccinated in childhood, they are still immune.
I actually had measles as a kid and have assumed that I am immune but really have no idea. I will be inquiring about this at my next appointment.
There are some people with unusual immune systems that don’t “take” the vaccine.
I wonder if those people are those that would also not get the disease at all, even if exposed to it. There is always a small percentage of people who can be exposed to an illness and not get it.
At first, I thought this was a joke. Apparently this guy also doesn’t believe there is an AIDS virus or various other viral illnesses. He apparently is a biologist by education.
^ There are kooks everywhere.
^^^Yes, but you don’t expect a biologist to hold such a wacky POV.
I suppose next we will hear of a mathematician who doesn’t believe in the existence of odd numbers…
People like that are the most dangerous one because people believe they have a valid opinion based in education.
It’s official - the Disney measles outbreak was facilitated by the anti-vaxxers:
http://jezebel.com/no-■■■■-disneyland-measles-outbreak-linked-to-anti-vax-1691703914
quoting from:
http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2203906
the four stars spell out the horse manure word, in case the link doesn’t work.
Wow. Thanks, greenwitch - the link works on my iPhone, stars and all!
Funny, funny comments.
This is really sad and scary:
http://news.yahoo.com/sixth-oregon-college-student-stricken-meningococcal-disease-210843636.html
"Health officials are asking parents to urge students at the school in Eugene to get vaccinated over spring break. About 9,000 out of the university’s 22,000 students have been vaccinated, officials said. "
What’s so hard about that? JUST DO IT!!!
The first case came to light in January, someone died, and still less than half the students are vaccinated? That’s just crazy!
The school may be one that only requires the vaccine if you live in the dorms but they should revise that during a life threatening epidemic.
Don’t most schools require this vaccine? My S school did.
https://healthcenter.uoregon.edu/Services/Immunizations.aspx
http://healthcenter.uoregon.edu/getthevax.aspx
It seems to me that their language could add a bit more urgency.
Neither my grad nor undergrad required immunizations.
I live in OR and I’m a pediatrician. Public universities here don’t (yet) require meningitis vaccine. Recent outbreaks have been caused by a strain that is not covered by the current meningococcal vaccines. The new vaccines that have been emergently approved do cover the B strains and have been made available in those schools with outbreaks (such as Yale last year and now the U of Oregon). But though most incoming freshmen have been vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis (not bc they’re required for admission but because most pediatricians have done a good job getting kids around here vaccinated against meningitis for high school), none had the vaccine covering the B strain. That’s what they’re talking about above. And none of your kids have had that vaccine either, unless they went to Yale or the UO or the schools with outbreaks.
Two issues will be (hopefully) changed in Oregon (I’ve been in touch with student health staff)-- one, that incoming kids must be vaccinated against meningitis (at least with the existing vaccines-- Menactra or similar) and two, whether or not teens and college freshmen will also need to all be vaccinated against B strains of meningococcus (the new vaccine is Bexsero or similar). This issue will also need to be addressed at other colleges.
Ah thanks for that info jaylynn. I recognize menactra from my sons records
Scary stuff.
Thanks, jaylynn! Your patients are in good hands. 
That’s what I was wondering - if the existing vaccine covered the strain that was causing the current outbreak. It was not clear from the news blurb. You answered the question that I was going to look up.
(Personal experience. Big research U only required measles vaccine. Baby kiddo’s small college required meningococcal vaccine, and it was a scramble to find it in July before the freshman orientation).