Sometimes the vaccine has a good memory and sometimes it doesn’t---WTF???

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Sometimes the vaccine has a good memory and sometimes it doesn't---WTF???

 

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I love how the vaccine for mumps has been shown not to work, yet they

are still making excuses for people to take it. I think these idiots

think we are all stupid too to notice so they just make it up as they

go along.

 

Below is one of the worst excuses I have seen so far pushing the mumps

vaccine and I am posting it partly as a joke because of how stupidly

written it is, I mean you would think if they wanted to convince

people they would come up with something better than " Sometimes the

vaccine has a good memory and sometimes it doesn't " I mean really, WTF???

 

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http://media.www.easternprogress.com/media/storage/paper419/news/2008/04/17/News\

/Vaccinated.College.Students.May.Not.Be.Immune.To.Mumps-3329813.shtml

 

Vaccinated college students may not be immune to mumps

 

By: Kristen Miller

Posted: 4/17/08

You might remember getting that physical examination before you could

start middle school. You might have images of a white-shirted nurse

with unpleasantly cold hands, or still be able to taste the tongue

depressor shoving your mouth open as you said " aah. "

 

But when you think back to the medical tests you had to take before

advancing to middle school, you might not think about getting your MMR

shot-because once you have been vaccinated for measles, mumps and

rubella, you never have to think about them again.

 

However, after a mumps outbreak struck a college campus in Iowa and

spread to other midwestern states, people might have a good reason to

start thinking again.

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that, of the

6,600 people who came down with the virus, the majority of infected

were college students, according to the Associated Press. Further, 84

percent of college students who developed mumps received the two

required mumps shots when they were younger, according to the article.

 

Dr. Pradeep Bose of Health Services said the shot is required twice,

once at 15 months of age and one more dose before middle school.

 

Mumps is a virus that mainly affects the ovaries and testicles and may

lead to infertility, Bose said. The virus can display symptoms such as

swollen salivary glands, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting.

 

So why would a vaccine designed to stave off such a serious virus

simply stop working by college?

 

Bose said it doesn't necessarily mean the vaccine was bad. The immune

system might respond to the vaccination - which introduces manageable

amounts of the virus into the body - very quickly and then wear off,

he said.

 

When the immunity fades and the body doesn't recognize the virus, it's

called a wild virus, Bose said.

 

Memory is important when it comes to the immune system fighting off a

virus. Sometimes the vaccine has a good memory and sometimes it

doesn't, Bose said. It all depends on the virus and vaccine.

 

Also, Bose said, the mumps virus is not some random sickness that

strikes out of nowhere.

 

" The mumps virus is not dead; It's there, " he said. Even though you

may not see many cases of it, people still get the virus.

 

The mumps outbreak in 2006 started on an Iowa campus, according to the

Associated Press article, and was a new viral strain that wasn't

targeted by the original vaccine. Bose said Eastern is prepared to

deal with an outbreak on campus if it happens.

 

Right now, Health Services offers MMR shots. But it isn't a

requirement in Kentucky that college students get the shots before

coming to school unless they are going into programs such as nursing

or physical therapy where students have to be in close contact with

people on a daily basis.

 

Bose said right now there are faculty members working to make it a

requirement for college students to get the two shots before coming to

school.

 

" I would recommend that strongly, " Bose said.

 

One reason the virus may have spread quickly on the Iowa campus - and

why college students are more susceptible to the virus-is because of

the way college students live, Bose said.

 

" Lifestyle makes them at high risk, " Bose said. College students live

in close proximity to each other in dorms and are likely to share

items such as drinking glasses, make-up and cigarettes.

 

But Bose said if the majority of college students are vaccinated, it

creates " herd immunity " and the virus won't be as widespread.

 

Right now Dr. Bose doesn't know when - or if - there will be a

requirement for students to get the vaccine for mumps before college.

He is working with other faculty to get the proposal approved by the

" higher up. "

 

" It goes through a winding process, " Bose said.

 

The MMR vaccine is offered in health services for $45.