If you received your childhood vaccinations before 1990, get your titers checked (ask your PCP) to confirm if you are still immune to measels or if you need an adult booster.
The second MMR shot was first added to the childhood immunizations schedule in 1989, and it turns out that many of us who were “fully vaccinated” as children under the old schedule are no longer immune to measels and need adult booster shots.
I had my titers checked last year and discovered that I had lost my immunity to measels, so I had to get an adult booster. My husband had to get a booster a few years ago as a school enrollment requirement because he had also only had one MMR shot as a child.
Measels is ridiculously contagious and has started breaking out in Seattle. Even if you’re not overly concerned about your own health, please do everything you can to ensure that it doesn’t spread through you and kill another kid. Thank you.
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