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…
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.)
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.)