03-18-2013, 07:54 AM
I hope you are quarantining your family until you either know what it is, or know for sure it is no longer contagious.
My mom didn't realize I had mumps when I was 5 and sent me to a birthday party, where I promptly exposed 30+ kids and adults, one of whom had severe complications and almost died. This was before there was a vaccine for mumps, but I just saw some research on how teens are starting to get some of the childhood diseases that they were vaccinated against as very young children. Apparently around 5-10% of kids "outgrow" some of the immunities to certain diseases right around puberty, I can't remember which ones though. Hawaii has so many visitors from all over that is very possible to get exposed to something that isn't commonly in the local "ecosystem" of kid spread diseases.
Carol
My mom didn't realize I had mumps when I was 5 and sent me to a birthday party, where I promptly exposed 30+ kids and adults, one of whom had severe complications and almost died. This was before there was a vaccine for mumps, but I just saw some research on how teens are starting to get some of the childhood diseases that they were vaccinated against as very young children. Apparently around 5-10% of kids "outgrow" some of the immunities to certain diseases right around puberty, I can't remember which ones though. Hawaii has so many visitors from all over that is very possible to get exposed to something that isn't commonly in the local "ecosystem" of kid spread diseases.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb