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Old 10-20-2015, 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Bjeanj View Post
I ended up with Pertussis about 1-1/2 yrs ago, so had to get a booster. My nephew's girlfriend recently came down with mumps (what, her parents never had her vaccinated?) and there was scrambling in that household to verify the rest of them either had mumps when small, or the vaccine!
Always a problem. Children didn't start to get vaccinated for the mumps, usually as a MMR vaccine, until the mid to late 60's. I never had the vaccine, but did get the disease. Many people just don't know. For the younger generation it's easier---better vaccine records, and the requirement by colleges that students have TWO MMRs prior to matriculation, ever since the early 90s