The Truth Is
That mumps, in kids, is a minor problem.
In male adults it can kill or make you infertile.
Same with German Measles (Rubella). For males, no matter what the age, not normally serious. For women of a child-bearing age it can make them infertile.
When I was a kid, only girls where vaccinated against Rubella and that was around the age of 12.
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 12:23,
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and in the UK especially
there's the burden on the NHS. She doesn't quite understand that an outbreak of those diseases would essentially increase her taxes.
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admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 12:29,
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Fuck The Taxes
I'm a big fan of the triple vaccine. Hell, I'm a big fan of vaccinations in general.
When someone is vaccinated against a specific strain of disease it means that, during an outbreak, there's less of a reservoir for the disease to infect or hide in.
Vaccination programs meant that some dude (it's late I'm I'm pissed) from the WHO was able to announce that humanity had done a first. We'd deliberately and systematically hunted down and destroyed a species of life. He said something like:
"As a Doctor, I'm elated, as a Philosopher, I'm appalled"
The disease? - Smallpox.....
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 12:56,
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and that sir, is herd immunity
In a group where, say, 95% of the people are immune, the chances of the unvaccinated 5% contracting the disease (or passing it on to each other) are so low that the disease just dies out.
Where there's only 62% coverage (like in London, where Jeni broadcasts her twaddle) then there's a good chance that the remaining 38% are going to pass the virus among themselves.
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admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 13:06,
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