I was vaccinated against smallpox [since eradicated]; polio; diphtheria; whooping-cough and tetanus as a baby/toddler in the 1960s. I had a single measles jab in 1968 (I may have got it before the majority, as I'd recently recovered from non-resolving pneumonia, and it was seen as undesirable that I should get measles. I had rubella and TB jabs in my early teens; at that time, rubella was given to girls only, and not till they reached 13 or so.
Varicelle is chicken-pox. I have had this disease, and I don't think there's a vaccine for it, at least not in the UK. Ann In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adeline Tissier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 'Students are particularly vulnerable. Many 18 to 22-year-olds were not > > properly immunised as children because they were too young for the triple > > vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) and did not properly take > > the > > double dose of the individual vaccines. > > > > During the early 1990s as a result of the introduction of the MMR vaccine, > > cases of mumps dropped rapidly. But this also means that today's 18 to > > 22-year-olds have not had the chance to build up a natural immunity.' > > So when did vaccination against these illnesses start? I am 27 and was only > ever vaccined against Polio, Diphteria, Tetanos and TB. I had regular jabs > for all these as a kid (at birth and then every 5 then 10 years) but like > most kids when I was at nursery and then primary school, I caught mumps, > measles and something we call varicelle (itchy spots all over) as well as > rubella at various stages. I remember all the kids in the house (my brother > and I and the 2 girls who lived upstairs and played with us) all having > measles one after the other when I was about 8. So when did these illnesses > which were just something you went through as a kid become something to be > eradicated? I have no idea what the policy is about vaccines against these > in France nowadays but I presume it is the same as in England. > -- ________________________________________ Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/girlsown For FAQs see http://www.club-web.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/girlsown/faq-0.htm
