I'm sending this to my email list that normally is about gaming. Mainly because most of us are of a certain age, and like me, may not be sure if they ever received a measles vaccine.
And no, I am not going to be putting out regular missives like with Covid. The sky is not falling here.
If you are not sure you are vaccinated, you can ask your doctor for a "blood titer test", specifically Measles IgG antibody test. This will tell you if you are immune or not. You can proceed from there. You really do not want this.
From what my doctor told me, the early vaccines in the early 60's may not have the life long persistence expected. The more effective vaccine was released in 1968.
A Penn Medicine office near me was shut down because of an infected patient. Penn Medicine is now offering the test to everyone they see.
In my case, I simply did not know. I know my mother had measles in 1962, when she was pregnant with my sister. So I was exposed, but I do not recall if I had them or not. The military gave me a number of injections in 1975, but I do not know if measles was among them. I did hear there was a measles outbreak in boot camp a couple weeks later. So again, I do not know.
But I will know in a few days.
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