The virus that causes 'immune amnesia'

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. The year I was in 4th grade

we all got measles, apparently exposed at a neighborhood Christmas party. That was followed by rubella, strep throat, and mumps. Since there were three of us, somebody was sick pretty much all the time and the orange Quarantine sign stayed up on our door. My poor mom was run off her feet! We had an old-timey doctor who still made house calls and he came by several times a week. I remember being really sick with measles. The weird thing about rubella and mumps was that I don't remember being very sick but I had to stay home anyway. I didn't swell up with mumps. I wasn't sure I'd actually had either until I got pregnant with my first baby and was exposed to rubella. I had to have a blood test and found out I had antibodies to both, which meant I'd had them.