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Mumps

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  • 12-05-2009 5:14pm
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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    Just wondering how widespread this is.

    Have there been/are there recent cases of mumps among the students in your school? 9 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    100% 9 votes


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    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Actually I meant to vote yes, just remembered we had one about a month back.... the last one before that was me three years ago :pac:


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    We've a large number of kids out, particularly from the LC classes, but across the school. They're getting jabbed on Monday.

    I'm not clear though, does it mean all the kids that caught mumps didn't get the MMR/whatever vaccination was available where they were, or are they catching mumps despite having been vaccinated?


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    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    ya our crowd are getting it on tuesday.

    i don't know what the story is, it's not very clear, i'd have thought that the uptake of vaccinations for children would have been quite high, but perhaps not. Or maybe it's a strain of mumps that is not prevented by the MMR. I couldn't get the mumps vaccination as a child just the other two, and it caught up with me eventually.


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