Thank you, Fla Mom. Do you happen to know when these types of tests became available? Did they follow closely the introduction of the needle for measles? This was 1987...
The other part of this is the hysteria, the panic. Grown people...Revolting.
As for knowing that I can ask for a test to prove to those telling me I needed to protect mys…
Thank you, Fla Mom. Do you happen to know when these types of tests became available? Did they follow closely the introduction of the needle for measles? This was 1987...
The other part of this is the hysteria, the panic. Grown people...Revolting.
As for knowing that I can ask for a test to prove to those telling me I needed to protect myself or others from something I'd already had is in and of itself an insult. Had my mother been alive, I have a feeling I'd have had a better chance of avoiding that needle. Yet there we were -- in a country alleged to be "Frist World" -- with people crapping their pants over an illness most (in my cohort) had immunity to or would survive easily. Instead? The "grownups" announced:
You are barred from this campus. You are prohibited from attending class. You will not graduate. Unless you submit...
I don't know the history of measles serology, but I don't think it was new then. I was in medical school when you were in college, and while they offered the measles vaccine to us, also because of the increasing rates of illness and the extreme infectiousness of the virus, even we, working in hospitals and clinics, were not forced to get it. (I was immune from what was then still called 'usual childhood disease.' On our forms documenting our patient interview, it was abbreviated as 'UCHD,' and it meant all of those that we now call vaccine-preventable, from the '70s-'80s - measles, mumps, chicken pox, e.g.)
Thank you, Fla Mom. Do you happen to know when these types of tests became available? Did they follow closely the introduction of the needle for measles? This was 1987...
The other part of this is the hysteria, the panic. Grown people...Revolting.
As for knowing that I can ask for a test to prove to those telling me I needed to protect myself or others from something I'd already had is in and of itself an insult. Had my mother been alive, I have a feeling I'd have had a better chance of avoiding that needle. Yet there we were -- in a country alleged to be "Frist World" -- with people crapping their pants over an illness most (in my cohort) had immunity to or would survive easily. Instead? The "grownups" announced:
You are barred from this campus. You are prohibited from attending class. You will not graduate. Unless you submit...
Sound familiar?
I don't know the history of measles serology, but I don't think it was new then. I was in medical school when you were in college, and while they offered the measles vaccine to us, also because of the increasing rates of illness and the extreme infectiousness of the virus, even we, working in hospitals and clinics, were not forced to get it. (I was immune from what was then still called 'usual childhood disease.' On our forms documenting our patient interview, it was abbreviated as 'UCHD,' and it meant all of those that we now call vaccine-preventable, from the '70s-'80s - measles, mumps, chicken pox, e.g.)