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Texas official warns against “measles parties” as outbreak keeps growing
(arstechnica.com)
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Measles parties is the stupidest thing I heard. It is not chickenpox (although even chickenpox instead of vaccine causes risk of having shingles once you get older), it can cause serious health issues and even death.
The chickenpox vaccine is relatively recent, and chickenpox parties were a good way to inoculate children who get only mild symptoms and very little danger from the disease compared to adults.
Nowadays, vaccines are 100% the best defense.
Measles is so much worse and it has never been a good idea to purposely subject yourself to that.
Yep, the vaccine is recent enough that if you were born in the 90s or before, the vaccine wasn't available when you were of the right age to get it. I didn't even know we had a vaccine until probably 5 years ago.
Same, I only found out through the shingles sub I regularly visit, because I had shingles before 20
Was still pretty dumb, because now they have shingles for the rest of their lives. Just laying in wait for the right moment to strike lol
Well, the thing is that if you get chickenpox was older person it is much more serious, and there is shingles vaccine too.
I'm actually fine that my parents did it, it seems like there's upper age for the vaccine so I wouldn't be eligible, so it was either that or trying to be lucky and not catching it while being older.
There was not a shingles vaccine back when "chicken pox parties" were a thing
You're right, what I mean it is now available and I can (and did) take it, so hopefully I won't have that problem.
Interestingly my brother got shingles in his 30s, but with covid became antivaxer and doesn't think he can get it again (he can).
Chpx vaccine only came out in 1995. Anyone before that had the virus already.
Yea I distinctly remember getting an Aveeno bath for it, and families were also having their other children around each other with chickenpox.
I know, that's what my parents did and I needed shingles vaccine.
I'm happy the vaccine is available for my kids and they don't have to worry about shingles when they are older.
The shingles vaccine for adults originally using a larger dose of the attenuated virus of the childhood vax. But now they have a new one that doesn't use the virus at all, it's called shingrx. It's not advisable to get shingrx or the original shingles vax if your under 50
I got it earlier, because of immuno suppressing medication I'm taking, also my brother got shingles in his 30s and as far as I know he doesn't have problems (at least diagnosed) with immune system or takes such medication. That kind of scared me to ask doctor about it.
I couldn't find exactly why it is approved 50+ except that's what FDA tested it for and that shingles is more common (but it doesn't mean you can't get it earlier) after that age.
From my own experience shingles vaccine side effects are worst from all the vaccine I had so far. My side effect was that after second dose I had problem with keeping balance for 3 days or so, which scared the shit of me.
yea i heard people got a really bad immune reaciton from the vaccine when they get it younger than what fda reccommended, basically it caused damaged near his testes.(funny thing is both the actual infection, chickenpox, measles mmr can do the same thing)
It's so stupid I literally think it's an attack on US citizens by hostile foreign governments
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hegseth-orders-halt-on-all-russia-related-cybersecurity-operational-planning/ar-AA1A1itr
The US does love eugenics, this is true
Sorry, was this meant to a different comment? I don't like the move Hegseth did, but I'm confused how this relates to measles.
That anti-vax rhetoric and "measles party" rhetoric are so unbelievably bad, I think it's psyops put forth by foreign governments meant to kill Americans deliberately. And with Hegseth removing large portions of cybersecurity, it's only going to get worse.
Yes you are right. The covid pandemic was also masterfully used to spread other conspiracies (that's how my family members got infected with the propaganda), and that it caused many Americans to die was a bonus to them.
I'm just gonna say, I got lucky with where my shingles hit and it suuucked. It was just my side. I have a friend who got out across their face. I got very lucky.
Neck for me. They got the paperwork ready to see an eye specialist if there's any sign that it might reach my eyes. Luckily didn't.