I'm not sure I agree about measles. I had it as a kid, as did all my cousins. We got through it and are fine. I guess I'm an old-fashioned, natural immunity type of kitty.
I don't think I've been without a cat or two for more than a few months at a time. Cats are the answer to everything.
I'm not sure I agree about measles. I had it as a kid, as did all my cousins. We got through it and are fine. I guess I'm an old-fashioned, natural immunity type of kitty.
I don't think I've been without a cat or two for more than a few months at a time. Cats are the answer to everything.
Agreed. Believe we just dated ourselves as older than our esteemed cat friend. Of my five siblings, only the one born in the 1960's had measles vaccine only. The rest of us went through all the childhood illnesses.
We're all still kicking around in our 60's and 70's.
Wouldn't be surprised, as in our current infectious agents, it is the metabolically unwell that are most susceptible to complications and death.
I'm not sure I agree about measles. I had it as a kid, as did all my cousins. We got through it and are fine. I guess I'm an old-fashioned, natural immunity type of kitty.
I don't think I've been without a cat or two for more than a few months at a time. Cats are the answer to everything.
Agreed. Believe we just dated ourselves as older than our esteemed cat friend. Of my five siblings, only the one born in the 1960's had measles vaccine only. The rest of us went through all the childhood illnesses.
We're all still kicking around in our 60's and 70's.
Wouldn't be surprised, as in our current infectious agents, it is the metabolically unwell that are most susceptible to complications and death.
Same here. Had measles, mumps, chickenpox as a child, got over all of them, and grew up with natural immunity, as did most of my friends.
i'm not sure i see the equivalence here. sure, clearly, most people survived these diseases, but also, nearly everyone got them.
measles is perhaps the most contagious virus in human history. the R0 on it is around 18.
now, it's rare to find anyone with a case.
how is that not an argument that the vaccine has prevented the spread of disease?
the fact that recovered immunity stops re-infection (and it clearly does) seems sort of beside the point.