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Mumps

bnt · 2008-04-29 12:56:41

I'm presuming everyone got that email from UCD Student Health Services this morning, about the two students who contracted Mumps at UCD. This is after some cases at Limerick and Maynooth. It's happened before, and around them same time of year too. At the risk of asking the obvious: why are there students at university who…

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#32 26-05-2008 8:00pm
snickerpuss

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I was fully immunised as a kid, got all the shots etc but have no dents/marks like everyone else. Why's this?
Can you have gotten the shots but have no scars?

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#33 26-05-2008 8:38pm
tywy

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^^^ Same here. Supposedly depends on what type of needle was used...

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#34 26-05-2008 11:15pm
Pythia

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Sangre wrote: »

This is probably the worst illness I've ever had. I'm in absolute agony, can't sleep or eat at all. On the plus side I know what my face would look like if I gained 5 stone.

Is it over yet?

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#35 27-05-2008 1:02am
Peleus

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I didnt get the MMR vaccine. My parents think the mercury in the vaccine affects your brain. Ye apparently there's mercury in it. I don't rly need it imo, I just stay away from people with mumps. it's worked so far.

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