Rubella

[jesmond]

before we had the mmr jab did us girls used to get a single rubella injection, have been try to remember this for a job application and I am sure that I have had it many years ago as a teenager possibly in the 1970's

[China Doll]

Pretty sure I had a rubella injection when I was bout 9 years old or something.

[Prudie]

I don't remember getting a rubella jab, nor mumps and measles come to that. I've had all three illnesses although didn't catch rubella (German measles) until a young adult early 80s.

[knowabit]

I remember having a Rubella jab in secondary school, probably when i was about 12 or 13? So, around 1987/8....

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.action.org.uk/our_research/successes/rubella_vaccine

[slaney]

Rubella vaccine was given as a single dose to girls aged 12 (and non immune women) between 1970 to 1988 when it was replaced by MMR.

[China Doll]

Ah.... I must have been in the last batch, I definitely remember getting it but I would only have been 10 in 1988.

[Eve]

I must be the same age as you China, 10 in 1988. I remember getting the jab in secondary school and some drama after when one of my friends fainted afterwards in science (thankfully in the other direction from the Bunsen burners we were using).

[China Doll]

I'm sure I had it when I was still at primary school... although at the docs and not at school. I definitely remember it was rubella... mmmm :-/

[coccinelle]

Yes, I got the rubella injection in secondary school aged around 14.

[mccfluff]

i had it when i was 10 or 11

[jesmond]

thanx all just another query, did we get it in our forearm, cos I think the one that we had (boys too) on the upper arm and which left a scar was the bcg wasn't it? and this was given at 13/14

[Mamyalynne]

The Heaf Test now replaced was to check immunity to TB, this was on the forearm.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaf_test


I would think the Rubeela was given upper arm.

[Sycamore3House]

I was in secondary school from 1976-81. We had the BCG injection which consisted of a circle of needles on the first week and if you had no reaction you were given the jab the following week. The girls also got a rubella injection the following year.

[pixie373]

I had rubella in upper arm at 10 (1984). Yes, bcg test is inside forearm. The vaccination has been replaced now (and when i had it at 15) with a non-scarring "daisy stamp"

[boxtops]

Yes, the BCG was on the outer upper arm when we were 14, and left a nasty little white scar (which I still have).

I never had mumps - my sister caught it when I was about 4, and despite my mother's attempts to get her to pass it to me so I wouldn't get it in later life, I never did.

[rockyracoon]

I had Rubella and BCG when I was 13 (1980) the rubella had disappeared from my system by the time I was 32 so I had the MMR after my daughter was born.