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In reply to the discussion: This Californian to the anti-vaxxers: F.U. [View all]HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)spreading it. They are mostly older adults getting this. Read a report that before the mid 70s the measles vax given back then was with a killed virus. Today, they use a small amount of the live virus. Article also said that in the years when the live virus first started being used, some people were still being vaccinated with the old one. Cannot know which vax these people received in those days. Back in the 60s, some of these people with the old vax, not only caught measles, but what they called Atypical Measles. meaning it mutated.
Might make you wonder if this is also what is happening with whooping cough too. The old vax is not the same as the one today either. Basically, it is not quite as simple as kids not being vaccinated.