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Measles may get beat back again: (Original Post) applegrove 14 hrs ago OP
The Heroin addict knows best bottomofthehill 14 hrs ago #1
And if you were already vaccinated, maybe decades ago, no_hypocrisy 14 hrs ago #2
I was vaccinated in 1966 and Bettie 12 hrs ago #3
I will look into it. applegrove 4 hrs ago #4
How "Progressive"!!! PCIntern 4 hrs ago #5

bottomofthehill

(9,377 posts)
1. The Heroin addict knows best
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 05:50 AM
14 hrs ago

Maybe that is not true. …last year +/-2200 cases were reported. So far this year, +/-1400 cases have been reported so we are on track for case numbers to easily double from year to year. We know vaccines work and are safe. The Heroin addict at HHS (with zero medical background past the use of street drugs) should know better but….

no_hypocrisy

(54,819 posts)
2. And if you were already vaccinated, maybe decades ago,
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 05:53 AM
14 hrs ago

it wouldn't hurt to get a measles titer blood test to see if you still have immunity.

I did, along with the polio titer.

You just don't know otherwise.

Bettie

(19,612 posts)
3. I was vaccinated in 1966 and
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 07:44 AM
12 hrs ago

was not immune. I had a new shot and was immune after the first one, didn't have to get the second.

I am glad I had it checked.

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