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Originally Posted by wazu
Hadn't heard of this. What year did you get yours? I got one in 87 or 88. There was an outbreak going on and everybody in my junior high got the shot unless their parents said no.
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It looks like you're safe. I don't know about this website, but it provides a description similar to what my travel clinic explained. I'm apparently in a narrow age group where some people got a non-permanent vaccination. (My personal vaccination was permanent, so I didn't need to get another one.)
https://www.healthline.com/health-ne...-revaccination
Key excerpts:
Measles vaccines became available in 1963. If you got the standard two doses of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine after 1967, you should be protected against the measles for life.
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The live version of the vaccine introduced in 1963 appears to have worked well, but there was another version (the “killed” version) that did not. That was also administered between 1963 and 1967.
Therefore, people who either received the killed version of the measles vaccine or don’t know what kind they received in the 1960s should be re-immunized, says the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionTrusted Source (CDC).
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“Most people born before 1957 were exposed to at least two major measles outbreaks, which confers immunity,” she said. Once a person has had the measles, they are immune for life. Its thse who received the vaccine between 1963 and 1967 are the exception, she noted.