can you get measles twice?

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Sorry to disappoint you there, but my son is living, spotty proof that you can get chicken pox twice! At least when chicken pox come round for the 2nd time they seem to be milder...

22
Bloody hell thanks i never knew that grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i hope mine don`t get it again, bad enough the first time around

23
And I am recent 'proof' that you can get chicken pox twice also - I had my blood tested when I was pregnant with my son, who is now 15 months old (so, about 18 months ago), and I was told I had 'some immunity'...

And yet, two months ago, all three of my children had it, and so did I - I got a 'mild' case - 25 spots or so - so definitely not a 'first, adult' dose, and also not shingles (shingles is a reoccurance of the virus, but you don't 'catch' it, it arises from your own body)...

My point is the same, in my opinion, people with communicable diseases should observe quarantine - for the sake of unborn babies, pregnant women, and people with other illnesses who may not be able to handle being infected...

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yup, me too, at 2 and at 15.

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I've been told by so many 'parrot information' experts that you can't catc measles twice... WRONG. At this time in Yiwu China my 4 year old boy is going through a recurrent of measles bout. There is for example 2 types of measles - the one that everybody gets their kids immunised against and a more serious type.

An alternative name for measles in English-speaking countries is rubeola, which is sometimes confused with rubella (German measles)

In the 1960's in Australia measles was part of life - All kids got measles and mumps and chicken-pox as a matter of growing up, and I had it 3 times. So the experts are still denying it. It is also possible for a freshly immunised person to pass on measles to a no-immunised person. Another myth of 'modern medicine' that was sprouted in Australia was that 'Glandular Fever' could only be caught 1 time and only by boys.....Wrong again

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Agreed! Apparently I had measles three times, by the time I was 7. Possibly that could have included "German" (rubella) and "English" (rubeola) measles, but one of them must have been twice. However, I was beaten by a cousin, who had four lots of measles.

I recall that measles meant staying in bed for a week, (darkened room) then spending another week pottering at home, before going back to school - the same for chcken pox and mumps. I must have missed a lot of school in those first two years.

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Do not let him come. The sister is contagious, the boy may also be contagious, they should not be travelling and putting other people at risk.

The correct responsible thing for the measles' patients family is to keep their children quarranteed for the incubation period.

Anything else is unwise.

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A bit late for warning innit...? Opening post was 2nd March 2009 ........roughly 2 years ago.

I wonder what happened? ... Did the sleepover take place?...or not? Did the husband catch the measles? Or maybe the whole family got measles?

Will we ever know?

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If there are 21 strains of the measles virus (italics button is STUCK! Cannot undo italics, so please bear with me)!

If there are so many strains then how would it make sense that one can only contract it once? One would think that there would be 20 additional times one can contract measles, Usualy like the common cold the reason people repeatedly catch cold is due to the various STRAINS out there! So too wouldn't it make sense that with 21 strains of the virus that causes Measles would cause 21 possible recurrences?

I am puzzled here.

Thanks

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That is because even tho there are several genotypes there is only one serotype (meaning that they have equal antigens)