The other reason mumps is different is that most people vaccinated against it in childhood. It's easy to give healthcare treatment to children.
It is practically impossible to persuade adults to take preventative measures - look how difficult it has been to persuade people to have regular screening for breast cancer. That's a disease that you might already have, never mind one that you know for sure you don't have now (well, barring a few days incubation, in which case the vaccine presumably won't help you anyway), but may or may not catch sometime this year.
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Re: Vaccines..
Date: 2003-02-26 03:49 am (UTC)The other reason mumps is different is that most people vaccinated against it in childhood. It's easy to give healthcare treatment to children.
It is practically impossible to persuade adults to take preventative measures - look how difficult it has been to persuade people to have regular screening for breast cancer. That's a disease that you might already have, never mind one that you know for sure you don't have now (well, barring a few days incubation, in which case the vaccine presumably won't help you anyway), but may or may not catch sometime this year.