Public health experts say there are some adults who should consider getting revaccinated. That includes older adults who were born after 1957 and were vaccinated before 1968.
That's because early versions of the measles vaccine were made from an inactivated (killed) virus, which didn't work particularly well, [Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia] says. That's why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that anyone vaccinated before 1968 get at least one dose of the live attenuated vaccine.
Before the first measles vaccines were developed in the 1960s, nearly everyone got the disease during childhood. So people born before 1957 are assumed to have natural immunity.
Purrtrovert
4 hours ago
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Good news as a kid I survived measles, and an immunity. That was before a vaccine was widely available. I remember how sick I was
from it too.
Short form if your not vaccinated your screamingly stupid
beyond education.
Eck!
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