[faithhopecharity]

we almost agree.
mumps and measles can be dangerous for little kids at times.
also, the measles virus can stay in you for years and then resurface again and you got shingles in your old age.
shingles can be very difficult for some people.

so.....I tend to take the vaccinations. I realize there are some risks with both the active and sometimes the inactive agents. So, I do not push other people to get all the vaccinations, but if they ask my opinion I tell them I get the shots myself...

at least we have these options available to us!!!
the most powerful and richest kings of just a couple hundred years ago....and Napoleon and all the rest...never had these opportunities

[Shethink13]

mumps and measles can be dangerous for little kids at times. also, the measles virus can stay in you for years and then resurface again and you got shingles in your old age. shingles can be very difficult for some people.

Shingles is varicella-zoster - the chicken pox virus, not measles.

How many of the infected suffered serious, long-term effects from contracting measles? There seems to be a bit of an overreaction to this, as if everyone who contracted the measles suffered a horrible death.

[Mom MD]

it is chicken pox that resurfaces as shingles.

[goat granny]

shingles comes from the herpes zoster virus, same as chicken pox not measles. There has been a big push lately about shingles, it is nasty but usually if you had chicken pox as a child you have some immunity against shingles. Just the opposite of what the commercial projects. On rare occasions a shingles patient would be hospitalized. But it was rare... Some company must have just developed a vaccine and want everyone to get it....It is painful but I don't know of any adult throughout my years that had shingles. We all had chicken pox as kids.

One of my granddaughters (now a graduate from college) had a rare case of shingles as a baby. Never had chicken pox.....also had shingles as a young teen. again never had chicken pox....extremely rare of a baby to get shingles.