“Vaccines Causes Adults”
I want that for a bumper sticker!
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Arkansas has now reported 2 cases of measles in unvaccinated children.
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Ashtabula County in Ohio is reporting 20, urging people to vaccinate. Ohio only reports cases in residents, btw. Vacationers or p/t residents won’t be counted. (Ashtabula fronts on Lake Erie). This is also Amish country.
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Another child with a case of measles came through the SeaTac airport recently. Ugh.
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“And visited several medical centers during the same time” 
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Yup. Can only guess that the first one was some sort of urgent care that sent them to maybe Children’s.
As noted in other cases, children with measles may not be properly diagnosed by a medical practitioner during the early stages of the disease. Since, so many doctors are not familiar with measles symptoms since they may never have treated any cases during their medical career.
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Even Honolulu has a few cases of measles. 
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YLE has some measles commentary:
That page has a link to a detailed PDF on the measles outbreaks from Yale School of Public Health.
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Got the measles vaccine today after in the past week talking to:
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my dermatologist, who prescribes my immunosuppressant
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a pharmacist with the company that manufactures the immunosuppressant
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the pharmacist at my HEB
who took so much extra time to explain why my birth date, combined with the efficacy of the vaccines available then, combined with my immunosuppressed status, etc., meant that I was a good candidate. I told her that I was willing to be talked out of it, but we decided that I should get the vax.
I was relieved that she mentioned that I am not in one high-risk category – people who work with or are around children. Their anti-vax parents likely were vaxxed when they were kids so most adults are less of an issue. I don’t have a lot of contact with little ones.
ETA: The pharmacist said that she had a patient who did the titre test a month after getting the vax, and he still had no antibodies. He came in for a second shot. I have no idea how common that is.
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I’m curious as to why you would be hesitant at all to get the vax? I jumped at the chance when my doctor said I could get it without even getting a titre done.
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Perhaps @Youdon_tsay was concerned that the type of immunosuppressant being taken was a contraindication or at least caution with respect to live vaccines?
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That’s exactly it. The drug packaging says that I shouldn’t do a live vaccine. I had a dermatology appt two weeks ago, and he told me how I could get one, but it means suspending my immunosuppressant for several weeks.
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I see, thanks!
I’m going to talk to my doctor when I have my yearly appointment later this summer. I had measles as a child (my mom said I was very sick). From what I am reading I don’t need to get the booster, but since we have our first grandchild being born in the fall I want to make sure to get this done if I do need it.
We were asked to get everything prior to the birth of our first grandchild, per the “orders” of the pediatrician AND OB/GYN.
So we did. That kid is now 10 years old- and it seemed so quaint at the time to be worried about measles. Now? I’d be clamoring for it. And I just read about a resurgence of whooping cough… OMG.
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Known prior infection with measles generally gives lifelong immunity for typical immunocompetent people.
However, if uncertain (e.g. if it is possible that the “measles” was actually rubella (“German measles”)), then there is no harm in getting a booster vaccine or checking titer.
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The pharmacist was so knowledgable and willing to talk all about it.
The cutoff year for getting the vaccine, according to some chart the tech had, was 1963, but I was born in December 1962 and highly doubt that I got the measles vax at less than a month old. The pharmacist talked about how one of the three vaccines back then was trash and that if you don’t have a record of the vaccine or recollection of having the measles that it won’t hurt to get it.
What’s funny is a have a specific recollection of getting the vaccine for German measles at my elementary school in the cafeteria. And at the time Dad was in the military and back then they did NOT play. So, if it was required I am sure that I got it, but did I get the trash vaccine? Who knows.
ETA: I feel a little feverish today so I am doing my workout in segments. And I feel a little itchy, but that could be going so long without the immunosuppressant.