Jabs for Uni

It sounds like you have had all the tetanus boosters etc that you need, but I'm not sure that you would have had the Men C, so you definitely need to check that one. The other thing is that you are exactly in the age group that missed out on MMR. If you don't remember being offered it in the last three or four years, this probably means you haven't had one at all. Strictly speaking you should have two, roughly three months apart. Your GP should be happy to do this. You would have had the single Measles jab aged one and the Measles and Rubella combination in 1994 during the catch-up campaign, assuming your parents consented to both. Either way, it does no harm to have the MMR x2 on top of whatever you did have, and it will protect you from mumps which can be nasty when you are older.

Size of the uni doesn't matter btw. Hope you like Goldsmiths -

PS - have just remembered that there were mumps outbreaks at Roehampton uni, and I'm sure Kingston as well, in the last three years - but maybe at a different campus from where you were - which would explain why you didn't get called in for MMR the way Flash6289 did.

I was offered an MMR jab in sixth form 3 years ago but didn't take it. I can't remember if it was because I was scared or because my mum said I didn't need it.

I think I might have had the Meningitis C jab in 1999/2000 ish because I remember having a jab when the whole school had to have it.

The last one I remember having was in 2003 when I had the polio and Diptheria a year later than I should have because I was ill the year before. I remember laughing at how embarrassed the nurse looked when she pushed a little piece of card towards me asking if I was pregnant.

MMR?

i ahd taht adn it ddi me no hram

It seems to have done your typing some harm.. lol.

..............You know about the MMR scare dont you?

If you do and were being sarcastic, I'll go hit myself

Yeah, I do.. some people apparently got Autism and all that bumf... Was your dodgy typing on purpose then? lol, sorry I seem to have missed the point. >_<

some people apparently got Autism

No they didn't. There is a case going through the GMC at the moment in which the lead research doctor, Andrew Wakefield, is being investigated for professional misconduct. Whatever the outcome of this case, the paper in question was withdrawn by The Lancet some years later when it was discovered that the research was deeply flawed for a number of reasons.

In any event even if there was a risk of autism as a result of being given MMR (and none has ever been proved) this risk would be significantly smaller than the risk of harm arising as a result of actually having the diseases MMR protects you against.

I had MMR and the a Measles and Rubella booster as a baby. Apparently that's the norm for people around my age (born end of 1988). That's the reason for the mumps outbreaks recently. Including at my school at GCSE time - what fun that must have been for the people who caught it. And I had the Meningitis C jab in year 6.
So I need to have a mumps booster, but I think (and hope) that's all.

I reckon a Rabies jab might be a precaution you'd be wise to take...