[monster]

yup, now we're getting letters home about mumps in the school. Anyone else? It'll be smallpox next. Thing is, mumps wasn't considered serioius when I was a kid. I guess maybe it's more of a problem since the vaccine came iin -fewer adults have had it as children so are now not immune. When I was little, all the adults had had mumps when they were kids. (Cool name for a disease isn't it? I always picture little marshmallow guys with googly eyes)

German measles was the one they used to scare us about. Nobody wanted to catch the Gernam measles. Nobody really knew what it was either. I'm beginning to suspect it was an urban myth.....