Spring is here and college students once again are feeling under the weather. The University of Washington is reporting at least 20 Mumps cases, mostly tied to the Greek system, on campus. Students and staff are being warned to stay home if they are feeling under the weather so that they don’t pass the potential Mumps along to others. But maybe they should also look into not vaccinating for it?
the UW Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases told The Seattle Times. UW advises anyone who is infected to stay home.
Statewide, 664 cases of mumps have been reported since October, according to the state Department of Health (DOH). That far surpasses the 53 cases in 2007, the previous high this decade. The last time the state saw such high numbers was 1977, said David Johnson of [the Department of Health]. …
All 20 infected people associated with the UW had been immunized, according to a university spokesman. The mumps vaccine is about 88 percent effective, on average, according to the CDC.
These numbers simply don’t add up. If the vaccine is 88 percent effective, yet 20 of 20 mumps cases were from the vaccinated, I’d say someone missed the logic of applied metrics. Mumps is spread through saliva or mucus from the mouth and apparently, according to the logic written above, being vaccinated doesn’t help. Symptoms include fever, headaches, puffy cheeks, and the swelling of the jaw and salivary glands.
According to the CDC, your best chance at avoiding Mumps is to get vaccinated. Oddly, for these 20 people, such advice completely failed them. I know that someone will counter to say that the 20 people are merely part of the 12% that were failed mumps vaccine cases, but even that logic fails. Why would all 20 be vaccinated? Shouldn’t at least some of these cases be non-vaccinated?
The bigger question is, when were these students vaccinated. Were any recently vaccinated as a way to begin the semester in compliance? The CDC will likely tell us the vaccine “wore off” and suggest boosters. Because that’s the easiest way to use failures as a way to line the pockets of pharmaceutical companies. The University is sure to use this as a way to push more vaccines. In the vaccine industry, failure is a bridge to selling more product. This has been true of the flu shot industry for ages. Pharma is protected from failures both legally and through marketing perception. It is almost impossible for them to do any wrong.
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