Measles: The study found that babies born to mothers in the general population lose their maternally-given antibodies by age 3.3 months, but babies born to orthodox, less vaccinated, mothers hold onto their measles antibodies until 5.3 months.
Mumps: No statistically significant difference was found between the antibody levels of the two groups at the time of birth.
Rubella: Results are complicated by the fact that many mothers may have had rubella before they were vaccinated at age 11. Rubella is a very mild disease that often goes unrecognized. The confidence interval was very wide and the p-value was high, indicating that the results are not significant. Interestingly, they found the same length of time until loss of adequate antibodies in babies to be about the same, though they calculated that it could be as much as 0.8 months shorter in the general population.
Varicella: As expected, there was no difference in times for loss of varicella (chicken pox) antibodies between the two groups, since neither group received this vaccination.
The lack of results for mumps and rubella is not surprising. In the case of mumps, the vaccination rates between the two groups is fairly small, only 12.7% (25.3 – 12.6). In the case of rubella, which has a wider difference in vaccination rates, 48.4% (65.6 – 17.2), the results are confused by the likelihood that many of the vaccinated mothers likely had rubella before being vaccinated.
There is a highly significant difference between the length of time babies are protected from measles when their mothers had natural measles instead of vaccinations. That difference was a full 2 months, 5.3 months for orthodox babies and 3.3 months for general population babies.
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