You came over very well Ruth. I didn't like the way they invited the second mother to criticise your stance. You were given no chance to respond to her comments! Considering that events showed that in this whole outbreak only 26 mealses cases were confimred by lab tests, [to date] one has to wonder if this wasn't just one huge media campaign to encourage up take of MMR.
My question now is, "Why is it mostly teenagers getting measles?" If they had never had the MMR, why didn't they get measles any time before? But if the MMR protection doesn't last, wouldn't this explain why teenagers were getting it, having been 'protected' up till then?
Hi Anglo, when we're told that there's an epidemic we're never told whether these kids are vaccinated. If the mmr vaccine does give any immunity at all, and there's doubts that it does, there's no way of telling how long that immunity lasts. There's outbreaks of measles in communities with as much as 99% mmr coverage. The only way to gain proper immunity is through getting the infection naturally.
