This is scary. For some reason my body absorbs the rebulla vaccination. It doesnt stay in my system. Having my second vaccination in just over a year ago.
So dont think just because you have had the vaccination it doesnt mean you are immune to it. Go and get yourself and family regularly tested for all vaccinations..its your life and your family life at risk.

make sure that people are aware of these things. i had to get up-to-date on my immunisations (rubella needed a top up) and it can be so easy to get busy with life and not realise.

Thanks for the update, I am all for vaccination.

I think a 3rd vaccination for young adults is a good idea… I recently had to get a blood test as evidence of having had certain vaccinations that were needed for my new job, and found out that even though I’d had the Measles/Mumps/Rubella vaccines when I was younger, I’d actually lost my immunity to measles. I would’ve had no idea if it hadn’t been for that blood test, and didn’t even know that could happen! Needless to say, I got re-vaccinated – but it makes you wonder how many people are out there that may have lost their immunity and don’t know it!

I hope the medical community and Scientists are able to get funding to research vaccines and find an answer and a solution to this problem. We need for the community to be protected from these horrendous diseases.

If my Daughter caught something off an unvaccinated child god help the parents of the child All children should be vaccinated the government should make it illegal for a child not to be vaccinated the parents should get hefty fines every year there child/ children arnt vaccinated

Oh great, just wait until all the anti-vax’s jump on this band wagon! In all honesty though, again it comes down to any protection is better than none at all even if said protection may need to be updated due to it becoming ineffective.

We need to vaccinate our children for the sake of those that medically, cannot be vaccinated. It protects the wider community who can’t be vaccinated and whose immunity is down due to having chemo or just being a baby.

This is a bit of an eye opener but it does make sense. Some of us have better immunity systems than others.

People need to vaccinate. For many reasons. For the protection of children, babies, and even adults. It is a health issue. It needs to be done.

Concerning. Something that needs more investigation and hopefully new vaccines can be developed.

Hate the thought that these vaccines are not a lifelong benefit against these infections. Just hate the thought that the dreaded small pox might rear its ugly head again as we would be unable to fight off this disease these days.

Another thing for our medics to work on. Because we didn’t live that long originally, the length of the vaccine working was not recorded. Hate to think that the small pox vaccine is being outlived and that might rear it’s ugly head again.

I am not immune to these diseases. I was vaccinated as a child but my body didn’t take it on. I have had 3 vaccines since I found out 7 years ago and I’m still not immune. An extra vacation in adolescents may not work if all these people are the same as me. Maybe it’s the vaccine that needs work.

Thank you to Big W for announcing this. Has it been verified whether the patient had ever been vaccinated? How long is the incubation period for measles? I’m sure she would have been contagious before she noticed any symptoms.