TIL: Today I Learned

[hobbsyoyo]

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TIL this is a word

 

[Colon]

Eiffel Tower is with 2 f's.

 

[Josu]

TIL there is a mumps outbreak in a campus of my hometown

 

[Birdjaguar]

TIL there is a mumps outbreak in a campus of my hometown

I had mumps as a kid.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I had mumps as a kid.

We all had mumps as kids. Then they invented a vaccine so people don't get it as kids. That way in those rare circumstances were people get it they are frequently adults who it can really hurt.

 

[Josu]

I had mumps as a kid.

So do I

We all had mumps as kids. Then they invented a vaccine so people don't get it as kids. That way in those rare circumstances were people get it they are frequently adults who it can really hurt.

There was a generation that did not had mumps due to the vaccine, it was erradicted where I live, do they stopped giving it to kids

 

[Timsup2nothin]

So do I



There was a generation that did not had mumps due to the vaccine, it was erradicted where I live, do they stopped giving it to kids

No, they still give it to kids, but it isn't really eradicated anywhere because people are too mobile. Things are only eradicated if they are eradicated everywhere, like smallpox.

 

[Birdjaguar]

IIRC from our kids, they both got the mumps vaccine as part of a multi vaccine shot as toddlers.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

IIRC from our kids, they both got the mumps vaccine as part of a multi vaccine shot as toddlers.

MMR...the only vaccine that's really controversial since it "protects" against stuff that used to be called "the childhood diseases" because pretty much everyone had natural immunity by adulthood anyway.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Yes, Mumps, Measles and Rubella. Thanks.

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

- Albert Einstein

 

[Arakhor]

MMR...the only vaccine that's really controversial since it "protects" against stuff that used to be called "the childhood diseases" because pretty much everyone had natural immunity by adulthood anyway.

It's controversial because an idiot anti-vaxxer and former doctor claimed it could give children autism.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It's controversial because an idiot anti-vaxxer and former doctor claimed it could give children autism.

Well, yeah. It's also controversial because the opposition insisted on taking "it's totally harmless" as their default position, and that isn't actually true so the defense got a lot more challenging. If they had stuck with "this autism nonsense is BS" they'd have carried the day much more easily.

 

[Birdjaguar]

@Arakhor Thanks

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's controversial because an idiot anti-vaxxer and former doctor claimed it could give children autism.

He's still at it, too!

Ironically, one of the few known causes of autism is congenital rubella syndrome, which...can be prevented in the first place with a vaccine.

 

[Arakhor]

Well, yeah. It's also controversial because the opposition insisted on taking "it's totally harmless" as their default position, and that isn't actually true so the defense got a lot more challenging. If they had stuck with "this autism nonsense is BS" they'd have carried the day much more easily.

The MMR vaccine that I had was live, but it's certainly almost totally harmless. I was more concerned with getting an allergic reaction from the plaster than I was from contracting anything from the vaccine.

Ironically, one of the few known causes of autism is congenital rubella syndrome, which...can be prevented in the first place with a vaccine.

I quipped to the nurse who gave me my MMR vaccination that I thought that I was rather unlikely to catch autism from the injection, but then I think she didn't realise that I already have a condition on the spectrum.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The MMR vaccine that I had was live, but it's certainly almost totally harmless. I was more concerned with getting an allergic reaction from the plaster than I was from contracting anything from the vaccine.

That almost was a key word in the debate. Trying to pretend it wasn't there led to a whole lot of problems. Coming from a generation where everyone developed their MMR resistance the old fashioned way I'm predisposed to think of that one as an unnecessary risk, made necessary only because widespread vaccination has made it likely for people to reach adulthood without exposure and all the childhood diseases were known to be harder on adults so you want to get them out of the way when you are a kid...or get vaccinated.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I remember my mother taking me over to a friend of hers house where the kids had chicken pox. She wanted me to get it early.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I remember my mother taking me over to a friend of hers house where the kids had chicken pox. She wanted me to get it early.

Yeah, that was a common practice. When I brought home a notice that measles were going around my school my mom said "good, let's get that over with." I was all excited because I was thinking I'd get to stay home.

 

[Takhisis]

My mother was ‘happy’ that I got measles when I was (IIRC) eight years old.

She wasn't as happy when she realised that this also meant I and everybody else in my class had lice because we couldn't have combs run through our hair.

 

[Arakhor]

Why not? Is is something about measles that prevents that?

 

[Birdjaguar]

My mother was ‘happy’ that I got measles when I was (IIRC) eight years old.

She wasn't as happy when she realised that this also meant I and everybody else in my class had lice because we couldn't have combs run through our hair.

As recall, very fine toothed combs are needed to remove the nits that cling to individual hairs.