The other day on the news I heard that people who had measles as a child are considered to have lifelong immunity and don’t need to rush out and get a vaccine. I’ve interweb searched and it seems this is correct. I also found a very interesting article about why Herpes zoster is a bit different, from the Indiana University.

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This idea from that link is interesting:

>>The ability to enter a latent state may have given varicella-zoster a survival advantage. Ancient hunter-gatherers would have lived in small groups where an outbreak of chickenpox could have infected the whole population. A credible theory proposed by Charles Grose, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Iowa, holds that, since chickenpox conveys lifelong immunity, the survivors could not be reinfected. And without new hosts, the virus would die out. However, by persisting for years in survivors in its latent state, varicella-zoster could reappear after a new generation of children was born. Since the shingles blisters are infectious, these children would get chickenpox and a new cycle would begin.<<

buffy said:

The other day on the news I heard that people who had measles as a child are considered to have lifelong immunity and don’t need to rush out and get a vaccine. I’ve interweb searched and it seems this is correct. I also found a very interesting article about why Herpes zoster is a bit different, from the Indiana University.

I will have the immunity test done when I have my next blood test. I had measles as a kid and have heard the immunity wears off. I have had chickenpox twice.

ChrispenEvan said:

buffy said:

The other day on the news I heard that people who had measles as a child are considered to have lifelong immunity and don’t need to rush out and get a vaccine. I’ve interweb searched and it seems this is correct. I also found a very interesting article about why Herpes zoster is a bit different, from the Indiana University.

I will have the immunity test done when I have my next blood test. I had measles as a kid and have heard the immunity wears off. I have had chickenpox twice.

I’ll also check that as it is more than sixty years since I had measles mumps and chicken pox. I did have shingles on my scalp a few years ago and have had one shingles injection.

yeah herpes viruses are bad duh

ChrispenEvan said:

buffy said:

The other day on the news I heard that people who had measles as a child are considered to have lifelong immunity and don’t need to rush out and get a vaccine. I’ve interweb searched and it seems this is correct. I also found a very interesting article about why Herpes zoster is a bit different, from the Indiana University.

I will have the immunity test done when I have my next blood test. I had measles as a kid and have heard the immunity wears off. I have had chickenpox twice.

In the Premier state if you were born before 1966, vaccination is apparently unnecessary (disease bags), those born after and up until 1993 need a booster dose as the schedule was only a single vaccination in that period and it now appears two are necessary. If the history is unclear, we give the vaccination.