Yup if you've got it, then you've got it and you're right the vax is only 80% effective at best, but the point is you want to know if you actually have it.

When DS was diagnosed our GP was awesome but everyone else who had been in contact with DS and went to their Dr's to be tested was pretty much just fobbed off. Even the person who I'm sure was the one who infected our son, (a dear and much loved family member with a horrible cough that just wouldn't go away) was fobbed off at her GP and told it was just a nasty cough. It makes me so mad. It only takes a second to do the swab, why are the drs so hesitant to do them?

Whoops I'm on my high-horse and hijacking your thread.