TOT: MMR vaccination for adults

No dates, I'm afraid but, born in the late forties, I suffered measles and mumps, one after the other and was kept at home, in a darkened room, under the care of the family doctor. I think it is safe to say that anybody who didn't actually fall ill must have been in contact with the illnesses and built up resistance anyway so our generation is probably safe! German measles was a worry in those days because it affected fertility so parents used to try and send - particularly young girls - into households that had the disease (Rubella Parties) so their children would get it over with before they reached puberty. My own children (cusp of the 70s/80s) received vaccinations for all the illnesses except smallpox - which vaccination had been discontinued before they were born.

Nick

I think it's more that most born pre-vaccination will have had it.

Ask your GP if you want the vaccination:

I have had all 4 - mumps, measles scarlet fever and German measles, and chicken pox. And whooping cough which permanently damaged my lungs

Only things we got vaccinated for were Smallpox, Polio and TB.

Which was the one that looked like a postmark and was usually done on the upper arm (though mine was done experimentally in the middle of the stomach)? Was it BCG (tuberculosis)?

Seeing her next week, as it happens.

Are you basically saying if you did not have the vaccinations, you probably had the diseases and will therefore be just as well off?

Probably ;)

My experience is pretty much the same, except I never had scarlet fever. Mumps, German Measles, Chicken Pox all while still a lad, then Measles just after I started work at Sainsbury's on the meat and cheese counter, when everything was cut for the customer. I don't know how many others I infected. BCG was the one that made the star-shaped mark, in my case on the left shoulder.

Scott used his keyboard to write :

DOB - June 1947

My medical record suggests...

Measles Part 1 Due on: 06 Jun 1948 1st Booster Due on: 06 Oct 1950

Mumps Part 1 Due on: 06 Jun 1948 1st Booster Due on: 06 Oct 1950

Rubella Part 1 Due on: 06 Jun 1948 1st BoosterDue on: 06 Oct 1950

That's interesting. The Public Health England timeline suggests that routine vaccination for measles was introduced in 1968 and rubella in

You were lucky to come out of all of those -

scarlet fever killed my uncle (I say uncle, which is technically true but it got him aged 1 or something) - made my grandma super paranoid about keeping my dad warm, and she kept stuffing cream in my face "to fatten me up" (well, it worked :)

Yes.

Yes, the "post mark" was scratch test to see if you already had an immune response. If the test produced a reaction you didn't get the main jab. The main jab left quite a round mark and could often be rather "tender" for a while.

If there was a vaccination going, I got it (born 1960). So in childhood Tetanus, Polio, Tuberculosis, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Small Pox. I do remember being a bit miffed that only the girls got the Rubella (German Measels) vaccine. Interestingly no record of Mumps or Measels but I'm reasonably use I've been vaccinated against Mumps and Measles, maybe I was given MMR as a "catch up" at some point.

Since then childhood Cholera, Typhoid, Japanese Encephalitis, Rabies, Meningitis, Yellow Fever, Hepatitis A.

Smallpox. They?ll soon be seriously collectible. ;-)

on 25/04/2019, Scott supposed :

The systmonline medical record only indicates when an injection ought to have been given by age, it doesn't confirm it was actually given.

There is only one actual item in my record, which I know actually happened - prior to proper records being made available, that when I fractured my arm in around 1968 and visited hospital for a pot.

I was born in 1964, my immunisation card says I had

2x polio in 1966

Item on BBC news tonight says it's never too late to have it, and once you have two immunisation shots, you're vanishingly unlikely to be infected.

Was that the ring of needles one? I somehow 'escaped' that one too.

Sounds like a good move - if you were healthy, it's probably better to get something like that when you have the best chance of recovery.

Yes.

I remember having that one.