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Outbreak Of Mumps In A Vaccinated Child Population - Belgium Posted by vaccinesme on Wednesday, January, 28 2009 and filed under Articles Key topics: Mumps Outbreak Vaccine Failure Secondary Vaccine Failure Vandermeulen C, Roelants M, Vermoere M, Roseeuw K, Goubau P, Hoppenbrouwers K. Department of Youth health Care, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 35/1, 3000, Belgium. Outbreak Of mumps In A Vaccinated Child Population: A Question Of vaccine failure? Vaccine. 2004 Jul 29;22(21-22):2713-6.
Primary vaccine failure is when the vaccinated individual either does not create any specific antibodies in response to the vaccine, or produces too little. Secondary vaccine failure is when the antibody levels decline over time. This shows that artificial forms of immunity (vaccination) do not provide true immunity, and thus will need routine revaccinations. However, as this will never offer true immunity, the incidence of the disease will simply be pushed into older age groups. This is what is happening with disease such as mumps and measles. Mumps is such a mild disease that it does not even require vaccination. According to The British Medical Association (BMA) and The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB):- "Since mumps and its complications are very rarely serious there is little indication for the routine use of mumps vaccine": British National Formulary (BNF) 1985 and 1986.
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