Sixth-form / college / uni - another virus to avoid

[turbobloke]

Females and males, but 1 in 4 men might consider buying a wheelbarrow at some point.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51493496

https://www.cdc.gov/mumps/about/complications.html

[Cold]

This is a situation where you really can blame the parents.

[poo at Paul's]

surely with everyone having had MMR, this should not be happening? Is it the anti vaxers only getting it, or is it occurring in those with the MMR all administered?
It may be just highlighting it as a disease, there's meningitis "scares" every year as things like this go about when uni students get out and about, but it's mainly for education rather than anything else.

[Evanivitch]

Cold said:

This is a situation where you really can blame the parents.

Not necessarily the parents of those infected though. If everyone had the vaccine then cases would be lower, but even those with the vaccine upto date can catch it, but the odds are made worse because of those that are unvaccinated.

BBC said:

He said: "For the mumps vaccine, we expect about 88% of people vaccinated to be protected, whereas for the measles vaccine this is as high as 98%.

"If you then add unvaccinated people into the mix, it is easy to see how a relatively contagious virus as mumps can spread so easily."

[Murph7355]

poo at Paul's said:

surely with everyone having had MMR, this should not be happening? Is it the anti vaxers only getting it, or is it occurring in those with the MMR all administered?
It may be just highlighting it as a disease, there's meningitis "scares" every year as things like this go about when uni students get out and about, but it's mainly for education rather than anything else.

Vaccines aren't always 100% effective (rarely are I believe) and even without the anti-vaxxers there will be people who cannot be vaccinated for other reasons.

Diseases also mutate. I suspect that's a big worry with any fall in vaccinations as it opens a wider door for them to evolve and become a much bigger problem.

Feckin stupid not to get vaccinated though.

[Electro1980]

Cold said:

This is a situation where you really can blame the parents.

From the bbc:

“ Current students may also be too old to have been immunised or offered the MMR, or may only have had one dose of the vaccine and thus not be fully protected.
It is also possible the vaccine's protection against mumps may have worn off.”

[Gun]

Evanivitch said:

Cold said:

This is a situation where you really can blame the parents.

Not necessarily the parents of those infected though. If everyone had the vaccine then cases would be lower, but even those with the vaccine upto date can catch it, but the odds are made worse because of those that are unvaccinated.

BBC said:

He said: "For the mumps vaccine, we expect about 88% of people vaccinated to be protected, whereas for the measles vaccine this is as high as 98%.

"If you then add unvaccinated people into the mix, it is easy to see how a relatively contagious virus as mumps can spread so easily."

I had mumps when I was little, despite having had the MMR jab.

[4Q]

Those before and after pictures look just like any other students who've been at uni a few months living on a diet of booze and takeaways.

[craig1912]

Son is at Loughborough and 3 out of 10 lads in his hall got mumps in November. Apparently they had all been immunised but still got it (my son was OK though).

[Lotobear]

I contracted mumps at the age of 40 and believe me at that age it's no fun. I'd never been off work until then but it took me out for 3 weeks and took months to fully recover. I've never felt so poorly.

Even now in my late 50's I feel sure I've been affected by some sort of post viral thing ever since.

Very much an avoid at all costs, especially when you're older.

[carl_w]

Lotobear said:

I contracted mumps at the age of 40 and believe me at that age it's no fun.

Me too, but I just felt poorly for a couple of days. Went for a blood test which took ages to come back and they said I had the mumps antibodies so it must have been mumps.

[JuniorD]

Mumps is a very sneaky condition. One of the the symptoms is loss of appetite, but it makes you like a total pie addict

[Lotobear]

JuniorD said:

Mumps is a very sneaky condition. One of the the symptoms is loss of appetite, but it makes you like a total pie addict

although I had no swelling in the neck, the bks however were an entirely different matter; however on the upside we'd just had our last child - in fact it was the little bugger who passed it to me

[Ynox]

I got it whilst at uni in 2005. Wasn't much fun.

[The Wookie]

I had mumps when I was at Uni despite MMR

Particularly hurt when I went to see the campus doctor and he asked 'What can I do for you today?'
Me: 'Well I wondered why I woke up looking like David Coulthard this morning'
Doctor: 'Oh sorry, I wasn't sure if you normally looked like that'


Thankfully only one Jacob turned into a grapefruit but that was enough. Every time I even rolled over in bed and it flopped from one leg to the other it was like being kicked square in the plums

[turbobloke]

The Wookie said:

I had mumps when I was at Uni despite MMR

Particularly hurt when I went to see the campus doctor and he asked 'What can I do for you today?'
Me: 'Well I wondered why I woke up looking like David Coulthard this morning'
Doctor: 'Oh sorry, I wasn't sure if you normally looked like that'


Thankfully only one Jacob turned into a grapefruit but that was enough. Every time I even rolled over in bed and it flopped from one leg to the other it was like being kicked square in the plums

Ouch.

Mercifully it's usual for only one to be affected.

[rjg48]

I had the Mumps a few weeks before I sat my GCSEs.


Horrible.