britnyank

This is following on from another thread really (but that was to do with schooling) and maybe it SHOULD be in the visa forum but I thought I'd try it here first.

Do I (at 42 years old) REALLY have to have an MMR vaccination before I am allowed into the country?
I already had the requisite rubella shot in my teens.
Has anyone else had to have MMR at advanced years? (My girls both have had it 'routinely' recently at school)

I don't like needles at the best of times!!!!

Dan725

I didn't want one but got the doctor gave me the vaccination anyway.....it does sem silly but that's how it seems to be.

Pimpbot

I never had it. I had a blood test before I left the UK at my doctors that proved I didn't need it. They printed the results out for me and I took those along when I went to get my I-693(I think) supplement for the adjustment of status and the doctor said that was fine.

Russ&Jayne

I didn't have it either. Same as Pimpbot, I had titre tests to prove immunity instead.

Bob

aye, same here, because local gp's in Oxford don't normally do them, there normally done at school, the booster jabs, when I was in school anyway...

But quite a few of the vaccines are age appropriate, don't know what they are though *l*

Maggs

Hi

Here is a link to the US Embassy web site vaccination chart that explain the age specific requirements.

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new...cinechart.html

Good luck
Maggie

Dan725

I'd never had mumps though - had chickenpox and measles, so probably not a bad thing however unlikely you are to get mumps when you are older.

alien species

If you had all the diseases, your titers will be okay, and u probably won't need the mmr. active immunity lasts a loooong time. however, if you had the childhood vacination for any of em...they've probably expired, and you will need the shot. even if you're low on only one...most places only stock the mmr combo, so you'll end up gettin the whole lot like me.

i had no probs. don't plan on getting pregnant within 6 months tho.

and yup, the needle is HUGE...

ScyLarc

This is where i have to own up and say I've not had a single jab since i was 4 years old. My family react badly to them and end up with diabetes or other nasty things. Anyway as i came in on an L1 visa no-one asked me if i had had any vaccinations. I did get blood tested ages ago and it turns out i have a natural immunity to most things anyway! So i would recommend a quick blood test first to see if you really need to have the jab.

emmals

there is a bit of an epedmic of mumps at the moment....I recently had them....so I would highly recomend you get the shot......

Dan725

Damn blood test is more painful than the jab I reckon!

Dant3

I had to have the chicken pox jab, even after providing evidence from my UK doctor that I'd already been tested and had immunity. Just this morning on the news there was a story of how some illegal immigrants have been found holed up in a motel but were now under 10 day quarantine because one of them showed signs (there's a dramatic pause here) of Chicken Pox! People here seem to treat it like Tuberculosis.

scrubbedexpat097

Chicken Pox in an adult can be very dangerous. Also a lot of times it is misdiagnosed in a child and therefore when someone says they have already had chicken pox and now are immune it is not always true. Mild chilhood diseases can react very differently when you are an adult.

Dant3

I had chicken pox at 22, and while I understood the pain to be far more than that a child suffers, I had no idea it was supposed to be so dangerous. If it is, why aren't the British vaccinated against it as children?

Bob

small needle, and it's a lot cheaper than having a whole bundle of immunisations...