Re: Re: RESEARCH - Association of measles virus with RA

[Guest guest]

Doreen, I'm not sure. I don't have access to the full article, and I

don't know if the authors speculate about the source of the measles

virus.

I'll look around and see if there is anything on the mumps.

Not an MD

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Mimi <mimi212@...> wrote:

> This was interesting, and it makes me wonder two things:

>

> 1-If someone were vaccinated against measles with a live vaccine, but never

> had a full-blown case of measles, would the outcome still be the same? I was

> vaccinated as a child and again 16 years ago after the birth of my second

> (and last) child.

>

> 2-As a child, I had a full-blown case of the mumps. I wonder if there have

> been studies done regarding mumps and RA.

>

> Thanks for all you do, . I firmly believe that knowledge is POWER.

> Doreen