I have just started teacher training and had to have a vaccination for
Meningitis C as a few years ago there were a few outbreaks among students.
(I am a "mature" student)
Varicelle is chicken pox.
Caroline Pinnington
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Adeline asked: So when did vaccination against these illnesses start? I am
27 and was only
ever vaccined against Polio, Diphteria, Tetanos and TB.
This is very weird for me, I'm in the US & I got the MMR vaccine as a child
(not sure if it was combined, or separate measles, mumps, rubella). When
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
tha
Adeline wrote:
>varicelle (itchy spots all over) as well as
> rubella at various stages.
That's Chickenpox here. I'm 39, and I've had most of them, though not
Measles - (nor things like diptheria of course). I have a vague idea
that I had a jab against measles - could I have done?
I've had rubel
> '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 1990
