They’re not entirely sure, though it doesn’t seem to be that the vaccine wasn’t doing its job, in the cases where students did get the recommended two vaccinations. Looks like in at least one case (outbreaks at University of Virginia), students had missed one of the vaccinations and turned in incomplete health history forms, while in the Illinois cases, it might have been a stronger-than-normal version of the virus.
Wasn’t chicken pox one of the diseases that contributed to killing off 95% or so of the Native American population?
Oy. And I thought it was bad when my boss had pinkeye and came in to work. I was totally paranoid about touching anything- I’ve had pinkeye, and it sucks. It’s really bad for someone like me- I flinch if anything gets near my eyes, so giving myself eye drops is harder than giving them to my cats.
Actually, when I had pinkeye in college, the nurse at the health center told me to throw out any eye makeup that I had. I’m kind of surprised that Macy’s wouldn’t throw out any makeup that Stupid Bitch had touched while she had pinkeye…
Mumps vaccinations? I got mumps in about 1972 or so (and so did my sisters). I had a friend who had it much more recently than that, but I don’t know exactly when (he was an adult when he got it, and he was not impressed with the course of the disease AT ALL). Okay, looks like the mumps vaccination was licensed in 1967. I guess it wasn’t used everywhere when I was a kid.
As far as I know, pink-eye is very contagious. I would be quite upset if someone came into work knowing they had it.
Neh. Smallpox.
I thought diseases other than smallpox contributed as well.