Hmm.

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I wonder if I'm affected by this - I know I had "booster shots" when we were in New Brunswick but I have no idea which ones they were. Mum?

I was exposed to mumps in 2005 (a horn-player friend was diagnosed a day after doing an exam; I spoke to him for a bit after the exam and he wasn't looking too well, I did give him a hug goodbye though) and didn't get it, but... well. I could have been lucky or he could have been not contagious at that time.

Is it bad to get a booster shot as an adult if you got a working one as a kid? Will the NHS even do this?

Given the fashion for people over here to not bother vaccinating their kids, I don't really want to rely on herd immunity if I can help it.

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To my knowledge none of my problems are auto-immune except maybe the eczema (and it is extremely mild, more likely to be oversensitivity than actual auto-immune stuff).