Posted on 04/20/2006 1:08:16 PM PDT by xjcsa
The group Hurley was traveling with when he contracted the disease met with both of Iowa's US Senators on the trip (Dung-heap Harkin and Charles Grassley).
Maybe he met Bill Clinton, who also had mumps. Or at least that's what he told Juanita Brodderick after allegedly raping her.
Isn't mumps a disease that included in childhood immunizations? Or have "they" decided that the vaccine is no longer needed becasue of so few cases or becasue of the anti-vaccine crowed?
It's interesting that the CDC is saying 95% of the people that got the mumps were fully vaccinated, yet is responding to all this by ordering thousands more vaccination supplies and encouraging people to get vaccinated. Of course, vaccinations are big money for doctors...
Mumps in an adult male is no joke. You can't even bear the weight of a blanket if it moves south.
Mumps used to be primarily a childhood disease. Knowing the mayor's age would seem to be basic information, but the author is apparently a journalist and not a reporter.
Yes, it's the MMR immunization (measles, mumps, rubella). I think it's typically required for school but some parents don't have their kids immunized. Apparently this strain of mumps was imported from England.
Immune response typically wanes after vaccination, so revaccination can kickstart it again. It looks like the vaccine isn't terribly effective against this strain (it's from England), but reimmunizing is a rational move.
Yet, lo and behold, we can hear a PIN DROP! Complete silence!
Why? Because immigration is on the hot-seat right now, and the culprits were ILLEGAL ALIENS.
RIGHT?
The vaccination frequently attenuates over the years. The idea is that you get a critical mass of kids vaccinated and this breaks the transmission vectors so that even unvaccinated people or people whose immunity has waned with age don't have much to worry about. But, if there's an outbreak anyhow, then you've got to revaccinate.
I somehow managed to contract a freak case of mumps back in 1989. They didn't have any other reports of it in the area, but I somehow got it, and I had had all the childhood vaccinations.
That's exactly what Savage was talking about last evening.
RIGHT?
Except when the disease arrive by "coyote" !
I haven't heard whether the source was illegal aliens or not. There are not a lot of them here in town, although there are quite a few in other parts of the state. There is a rather large Bosnian immigrant/refugee population here in town; that's another possible source, if they were not immunized when they moved here. Or it could have just happened; I don't know.
I wonder about those vaccinations. I got a flu shot back in November and I still got sick (3 times). I mean really sick. It happens everytime I decide to get a flu shot. My niece got a chicken pox vaccine. Guess what she's got now? Chickpox.
But hey, bird flu MIGHT maybe mutate and make people sick. Mumps is bad for adolescents and adults.
You sound just like Michael Savage (radio guy). He has been saying this all week too.
All of these illegal immigrants flooding into our country are bringing diseases that we conquered many years ago, but many of our younger generations are not immune to these now.
Thank you RINOs.
"There are not a lot of them here in town"
Ever heard of airline flights where your fellow Iowa citizens have flown into your state after sitting on an airliner full of third worlders?
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