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To: ilovesarah2012

How is it that if the greater majority of the students have been vaccinated that a major outbreak can happen. There was I believe a mumps outbreak a while back and most of the kids that caught it had been vaccinated. I thought only the unvaccinated should be affected.


23 posted on 01/08/2017 3:37:19 PM PST by nanook (Thomas Jefferson was right.)
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To: nanook

“I thought only the unvaccinated should be affected.”

A population must achieve herd immunity.

Without herd immunity, some in the vaccinated population will contract the disease.


27 posted on 01/08/2017 3:43:13 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: nanook

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html


51 posted on 01/08/2017 4:33:02 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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