Mumps!

[tablet_eraser]

Oh nooooo! Outbreaks of mumps on RAF stations seem to be peaking. I hear Lyneham, Leuchars, Boulmer and Coningsby are affected badly. How did this happen?

Anyone with any firmer stats? Would be interesting to hear, say, who's worst affected, how long it's been going on, what's being done about it, etc.

[kippermate]

A lower then expected take-up of the MMR jab probably had something to do with it.

kipper.

[ZH875]

Or a higher takeup of the Anthrax jab

[Incipient Sinner]

Don't even start!!!

The schools had it at the start of the year, it's on the list of jabs for Service personnel and it'll burn out soon enough given a short while. No need to get panicky.

[MrBernoulli]

Didn't have a mumps vaccine when I was a young child on the Dark Continent. Caught mumps and dealt with it. Sisiter was ill at the same time. Several days off school - hurrah!

[teeteringhead]

But isn't mumps .... ahem .... a little more serious for mature men (should be all right for aircrew then!)

[VitaminGee]

It is. The last adult I saw with mumps (aircrew curiously enough!) was carrying his .....er..... more sensitive parts in a wheelbarrow!!

[Green Bottle 2]

I believe the complication is called Orchitis.

GB2

[ORAC]

As opposed to ouchitis.....

[VitaminGee]

Also known as didymitis.

(Which, up to now, is what I thought Ken Dodd suffered from!!)

VG

[SASless]

I thought all helicopter pilots required wheelbarrows!

[Circuit Basher]

SASless - the wheelbarrows are only required for their egos!!! ;)

For any other appendages, the pen pocket on the sleeve of their flying suit would usually do, so I hear!! ;) :E

(I may absent myself from Mil Aircrew for a few weeks!! :E )
Only joking, guys - luckily my local SAR unit is civvie, so I may stand a chance!!

[SASless]

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The heart of a Lion,

The eyes of a Hawk,

and the Balls of an Army Helicopter Pilot!