Gap in logic?

[Quickening]

Australian media report: http://www.theage.com.au/national/adults-most-at-risk-in-mumps-comeback-20081019-53zv.html


The researchers said the rise [in adults getting mumps] was due to the waning effect of the vaccine over time and an increase in the number of unvaccinated people.
The media report is referring to this research below.

Medical Journal of Australia: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/189_08_201008/sen10220_fm.html#0_i1092153


Before the introduction of mass vaccination programs, mumps primarily affected 5–9-year-old children, but more recent (and large) outbreaks have mainly affected adolescents and adults.5 (http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/189_08_201008/sen10220_fm.html#0_i1092159),6 (http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/189_08_201008/sen10220_fm.html#0_i1092161) In 2004–2005 in the United Kingdom, more than 56 000 clinical cases of mumps were notified, with the majority of confirmed cases occurring in 15–24-year-olds.7 (http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/189_08_201008/sen10220_fm.html#0_i1092163) This change is clinically important, as mumps tends to be more severe in adolescents and adults than in children.8 (http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/189_08_201008/sen10220_fm.html#0_i1092165) Furthermore, some complications such as orchitis are limited to post-pubertal infection.

:LMAO:So when unvaccinated populations were at their PEAK, mumps primarily affected 5-9 year olds (the at most LOW RISK population), and when vaccination coverage started and rose, mumps started to primarily affect adults (the at most HIGH RISK population)... and they reckon its because of UNVACCINATED PEOPLE? :LMAO::LMAO::LMAO::LMAO::LMAO:

[MinorityView]

They have the word unvaccinated in their word processors to automatically generate whenever someone is writing a story on an increase in disease. No thinking required.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

From the 2007 NZ Annual Surveillance Report

http://www.surv.esr.cri.nz/PDF_surveillance/AnnualRpt/AnnualSurv/2007AnnualSurvRpt.pdf

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f71/Angladrion/Pg27mumpsvax2007AnnualSurvRpt.jpg

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

and they reckon its because of UNVACCINATED PEOPLE?

But Quickening, you have to blame those who won't join the :baa: group. :giggle: After all, they are making all the :baa: vaccinated people sick :alien: It's not the vaccine's fault. If you got vaccinated and then got sick anyway, and spread mumps around all the other :baa: vaccinated people... that would be okay, because that's the legitimate :baa: way to do it.

[Janet]

Back in the Dark Ages when I was a child, mumps was no biggie. I had mumps. I lived. And oddly enough no longterm side effects just a fortnight of being sick...

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

I never had mumps. I didn't get it when the kids got it. I didn't get it, when my husband got it. But I'm assuming I'm immune. But then... given that my husband didn't get clinical mumps until he was 63, maybe i'll have to wait until second childhood :D