Comments on: Mumps Outbreak In Highly Immunized Population http://melissablogs.com/2008/04/29/mumps-outbreak-in-highly-immunized-population/ Information Pollination Mon, 21 May 2012 03:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luis Howard http://melissablogs.com/2008/04/29/mumps-outbreak-in-highly-immunized-population/comment-page-1/#comment-19410 Luis Howard Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:47:54 +0000 http://www.melissaclouthier.com/2008/04/29/mumps-outbreak-in-highly-immunized-population/#comment-19410 I got mumps last year and it was really very painful. I have to take some pain killers to ease the pain. ` I got mumps last year and it was really very painful. I have to take some pain killers to ease the pain. `

]]> By: Rorschach http://melissablogs.com/2008/04/29/mumps-outbreak-in-highly-immunized-population/comment-page-1/#comment-7453 Rorschach Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:31:00 +0000 http://www.melissaclouthier.com/2008/04/29/mumps-outbreak-in-highly-immunized-population/#comment-7453 Doc, it isn't just mumps either. Chickenpox is another one that is mostly harmless as a kid but is not so great as an adult. Texas requires vaccinations for all school kids. which means that about the time they get to college, they will be vulnerable again.<br/><br/>A more insidious one is the HPV vaccine Pecos Perry tried to shove down our throats (or elsewhere). Here is the deal, it only protects against 3 really bad strains (and one relatively minor one), requires a series of 3 shots, and then on average lasts about 10 years after the last shot. There is another one that Glaxo is working on that is Phase III trials right now that will protect against something like 7 bad strains. If you start one series, and then decide you want the other one, then you have to start the series all over again and at over $350 a shot, that is not a small amount of money. And both will be wearing off about the time young women are really getting out into the sexual world (early-mid 20's). The sad fact is that adults do not get booster shots. They simply don't.<br/><br/>I predict that in about 5-7 years, there will be a massive epidemic of chickenpox in young adults that did not catch it as kids because they were vaccinated. Doc, it isn’t just mumps either. Chickenpox is another one that is mostly harmless as a kid but is not so great as an adult. Texas requires vaccinations for all school kids. which means that about the time they get to college, they will be vulnerable again.

A more insidious one is the HPV vaccine Pecos Perry tried to shove down our throats (or elsewhere). Here is the deal, it only protects against 3 really bad strains (and one relatively minor one), requires a series of 3 shots, and then on average lasts about 10 years after the last shot. There is another one that Glaxo is working on that is Phase III trials right now that will protect against something like 7 bad strains. If you start one series, and then decide you want the other one, then you have to start the series all over again and at over $350 a shot, that is not a small amount of money. And both will be wearing off about the time young women are really getting out into the sexual world (early-mid 20′s). The sad fact is that adults do not get booster shots. They simply don’t.

I predict that in about 5-7 years, there will be a massive epidemic of chickenpox in young adults that did not catch it as kids because they were vaccinated.

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