Measles is scary. Breakthrough measles is even scarier.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-measles-breakthrough-vaccine-joy-spearchief-morris/
From the article:
The answer to how I became sick may lie in what’s called secondary vaccine failure, which happens when a vaccinated person’s immunity decreases over time until they are no longer protected. This can take place when an immune system doesn’t receive the “boost” it needs from encountering the virus.
“There is evidence to suggest that in the absence of these boosts, the immune response that is induced by the vaccine isn’t lasting as long,” said Janna Shapiro, a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Toronto. That means even those who were fully vaccinated as kids can lose their immunity.
This was me. I was at the doctor and he was having me get some bloodwork done. I asked him to check my measles immunity status, too, because I’d previously seen online of the possibility mentinoed above. My parents did have me immunized when I was a child, but I thought why not check? The results: I had no immunity.
It was free (to me, the patient) to get the shots. My doctor had to order them in. It’s two shots a month apart, and then another blood draw another month later to check. I’ll be honest, it was the second most painful vaccination I’ve ever had (the first was shingles), but totally worth it. Ask your doctor to check the next time you’re getting bloodwork done.
I’m kind of curious about my immunity. I believe I was vaccinated, but I’m old, and I’m under the impression that some of the vaccines around when I was a kid didn’t confer lifelong immunity.
Nearly 5,000 measles cases have been reported in Canada so far in 2025; in 2023, only 11 were recorded.
This is insane. We’ll have to have an entire generation start getting sick and dying off from preventable diseases before the general public realizes the good vaccines do.
Vaccinated and caught measles?
What I didn’t know then was that a prescription medication I was taking for eczema had possibly caused my immune system to become vulnerable to measles
Okay, so maybe not so worrying to the vaccinated.
Check out @Akuchimoya@startrek.website 's comment. A person’s immune system may not “remember” the vaccine, so they need to be vaccinated again.
Being vaccinated doesn’t mean that you 100% sure won’t get infected
It means that the chance you do get infected is extremely much smaller and if you do, typically your body can.fight better and you get less sick.
Combined with a coverage of 98% of the population it typically causes that that viral infection disappears completely
All vaccines do is expose your immune system to something to be on the look out for. Thus vaccines are only good as your immune response is. Thats why its so important to have herd immunity, so people with weak immune systems will be less likely to be exposed to diseases.
I had spent a few weeks in Alberta with my family in July
Oof, Alberta, not even once
It’s easy to dunk on Alberta but there are a lot of measles cases in Ontario.
As of September 23, Ontario has reported a total of 2,375 measles cases (2,058 confirmed, 317 probable)
https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Documents/M/24/measles-ontario-epi-summary.pdf
So taken in context with the article here saying there have been nearly 5000 cases across Canada, that puts Ontario at almost half of the national cases.
Ontario: 16.1 million people Alberta: 4.9 million people
I think I’ll take dunking on AB
Ye old never one never zero rearing its ugly head.
Just more and more people opting out as exemptions to school vaxxing or what?
Idk in the us or by state, but most all northern states have near 0 measles. Washington had some in the islands in the sound not long back, vax skeptical.
That is the only measles I have heard of up north I think.
