Would you get the rubella vax in this situation? - Page 2

[Gitti]

Originally Posted by MyBoysBlue

"The last major epidemic of rubella in the United States occurred in 1964 and 1965 when millions of rubella cases led to 20,000 cases of infants born with CRS."

From the CDC site: http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/ch4/rubella.aspx

Maybe someone else can explain how the CDC simply makes up numbers as mentioned in the above statement.

Here is their official count for CRS:

1964 - 53
1965 - 16

[Gitti]

Here is the link -

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pin...ses&deaths.pdf

There was no counting CRS before the vaccine since the numbers were always low. 1964 was the first year they kept track of it.

[Delicateflower]

Originally Posted by Gitti

Maybe someone else can explain how the CDC simply makes up numbers as mentioned in the above statement.

Here is their official count for CRS:

1964 - 53
1965 - 16

Gitti, the link you supposedly got those numbers from says

1964 - Not recorded
1965 - not recorded

1969 is the first year congenital rubella syndrome was recorded. After the vaccine started.

But the story is very different now. With very few cases. That was over 40 years ago.

In unvaccinated people.

[MyBoysBlue]

Not necessarily only in unvaxed. You can be vaxed for rubella and still not be immune. It happens all the time. There are several stories here on this thread where they got the vax but are still not immune.

From my reading most of the more recent cases are in immigrants though.

[katelove]

Originally Posted by Gitti

This is absolutely NOT fact. Could you please post the sentence which made you believe that?

Sure. Here it is again, although it was also in my original post... "If rubella virus infection occurs in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, up to 90% of patients have some manifestations of the congenital rubella syndrome." http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/235213-overview

ETA - here is another source "When a woman is infected with the rubella virus early in pregnancy, she has a 90% chance of passing the virus on to her fetus." http://www.who.int/immunization_moni.../en/index.html

and one last one "Congenital rubella syndrome occurs in up to 90 percent of babies born to women who acquired rubella in the first trimester of pregnancy." http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/factshe...e/rubella.html

[Li27]

Oh my, so confusing! I'm definitely leaning towards not getting it, but will need to think about this some more. Such a hard decision. I hate making these decisions, just hate it. :-(

I think one thing that is helping me accept not getting it, is the poster who said if I haven't gotten it in the 31 years prior, what are the chances I'd get it in the first 4 months of pregnancy? That does definitely help me in thinking about this.

Thanks everyone.