I have no real trust in my local community (theres quite a few anti-vaccine people here).

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    181·
    3 days ago

    Mod notice: It is important to keep in mind that we are all strangers on the internet here, and it is therefore important to exercise critical thinking when it comes to medical advice and related questions.

    Anything you read here has the potential to be completely made up and/or wrong, including this mod notice.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    261·
    2 days ago

    I think official government advice at this point is to find an infected person and snort their sore spots.

    I would go with a vaccine, otherwise I suppose isolate from society.

  • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
    70·
    2 days ago

    Healthcare professional here - but not your HPC and you cannot confirm that I am who I am so double check what I write:

    • Get your titers checked and get revaccinationes asap. If you are not vaccinated or are a non-responder talk to your healthcare provider. Isolate until then.

    • Mask up and keep your hands away from mouth, eyes and nose. You will need a properly fitting FFP3/NP95 mask here - measles are far meaner in terms of infectiousness than COVID. Tight fitting means: You have no leaks at the side - if your glasses fog up, if you can feel air going in or out next to your face,etc. it is not working. The usual “duckbill” masks with straps around the ears very very rarely fit properly.

    • Wash your hands and desinfect them properly.

    • Stay the fuck away from babies. Really. Please.

      • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        Every vaccination has a (although very slim) chance to cause an adverse reaction. Around 5% of all people vaccinated have a minor skin reaction (which is physiological and not an anaphylaxis. 1% report joint pain.

        But,more severely, 1-4 people out of a million develop a life-threatening anaphylaxis, 3 out 100.000 a serious blood clothing disorder. Very rarely(as in: Less than 1 in 1 Million), but with a slightly higher incidence of you are an adult pancreatitis and deafness is reported.

        As medicine is always a game of chances we try not to risk things,even if they are rare.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        One I can think of… I want to my local pharmacy last week to get an MMR shot, and was refused. They pretty much wont do it without a Dr’s order.

      • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Mostly yes,but it is possible to have some beardstyles if you know very much what you are doing (and have a large head).

        But the actual area of contact and to a certain degrees the areas around it need to be shaved properly,yes.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    811·
    3 days ago

    Measles is the most infectious virus we know of. Contagion is measured by how many people the average patient will infect. Covid was a 4, measles is 18.

  • ModestMeme@lemm.eeEnglish
    44·
    3 days ago

    My healthcare provider had me tested for Measles antibodies because apparently that shit can wear off after 50 years in some people. I was still good with Mumps and Rubella, but was wide open to Measles. So I got an MMR vaccine (available at Walgreens, CVS, etc) and I’m good to go. So if you’re over 50, you might want to get tested or simply just ask your your doctor for their opinion about getting another shot.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
    28·
    3 days ago

    Both shots leave you at 98% immunity. Then if you somehow beat those odds and still manage to get it, it will be much less severe.

    You’ll be totally fine. The only victims of measles in the US will mostly be. children of idiot parents, adults who had idiot parents and then became idiot adults, and people with actual medical issues that have prevented them from safely getting the vaccine.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    24·
    3 days ago

    If you got 2 doses of the MMR vaccine as a child, you’re probably fine. The vaccine is like 97% effective at preventing measles, and if you’re part of that 3% your symptoms will probably be milder that if you weren’t vaccinated. It’s a damn good vaccine. Even if you got only 1 dose that’s still considered to be 90-something percent effective.

    Talk to your doctor, people with certain autoimmune conditions, the elderly, people born when they were only giving 1 dose of the vaccine or who received older vaccine formulas may need a booster. The rest of us who are vaccinated are almost certain to be fine.

    The real risk is to children who haven’t been vaccinated yet because they’re too young, people who can’t receive the vaccine for health reasons like allergies or other unvaccinated adults, and people with compromised immune systems.

    I can’t really find good numbers of what percent of the US overall is vaccinated, but if the current rates of children being vaccinated are anything to go by, it’s most of them. Even with all of the anti vax talk, it seems like somewhere north of 80% of children in the US are still getting their recommended vaccines from what I can find. This is mostly going to hit that 10-20-ish percent who aren’t vaccinated.

    And the real tragedy that a good amount of the anti vax parents were actually vaccinated themselves as children and so get to enjoy that 97% immunity. They won’t be in much danger of catching measles but their children will be.

    Otherwise, all of the usual advice applies, wash your hands, disinfect shared surfaces and equipment, cover your mouth when you cough, maybe wear a mask in public, do what you can to encourage your friends and family to get vaccinated if they aren’t.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 days ago

    Being vaccinated and have this vaccination working is already a 97%+ protection. Add a mask, and it’s even better. Maybe avoid hugging infected people…

  • MrMobius @sh.itjust.works
    62·
    3 days ago

    You should take everything you hear on the internet with a grain of salt (including here). You should really trust the guidelines of your country’s health ministry or the WHO. Then again, the WHO has said some crazy shit in the past…

      • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        That’s not how vaccinations work, and FYI around 3% of those that received 2 doses of the vaccine are still susceptible to getting it. So people in any state can still get measles & even those that have been vaccinated.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 days ago

          Yes that’s the point. By purposefully hosting the virus they are endangering everyone who isn’t protected because it’s not a regional thing. It spreads on planes and in tourist areas. Which is why there’s a case from LAX in California now.

          Furthermore the more they willfully host it, the more it mutates and risks breaking the containment we do have on it.