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No, actually all the people I knew that had had the measles were in the late 50s and 60's--before any vaccine. And I stand by my statement that not one person to my knowledge ever died or had encephalitis. Are those statistics from the U.S. or worldwide in places without clean water and sanitation?
You and I are around the same age. Remember how many kids had hearing aids then? Not so much now. Same with blindness.
Not what I wanted but somewhat informative. Raw numbers, not per capita.
I never said it prevented measles. It has shown that it can prevent COMPLICATIONS, DEATH and HOSPITALIZATIONS if you get the measles.
They have to revise the schedule again because even people who have had two doses have contracted measles in the Disneyland case. Check your titers.
I just did this calculation for another board (not CD). Five people out of conservatively speaking 150,000 fully immunized/natural immunity bearing Disneyland visitors got the measles. That's .003%. 1 in every 30,000. It's actually probably more like 5 in 200,000 or even 250,000. You can't get much better odds than that. A 70 year old man got the measles there too. He presumably had natural immunity; he would have been born in 1944-45. People born in 1956 or earlier are considered naturally immune b/c everyone got the disease back then. I've had my titers checked, and I had the disease. I also have some mild hearing loss from either measles or mumps.
I just did this calculation for another board (not CD). Five people out of conservatively speaking 150,000 fully immunized/natural immunity bearing Disneyland visitors got the measles. That's .003%. 1 in every 30,000. It's actually probably more like 5 in 200,000 or even 250,000. You can't get much better odds than that. A 70 year old man got the measles there too. He presumably had natural immunity; he would have been born in 1944-45. People born in 1956 or earlier are considered naturally immune b/c everyone got the disease back then. I've had my titers checked, and I had the disease. I also have some mild hearing loss from either measles or mumps.
Be happy that the odds are in your favor.
Someone should probably let Chris know that it's safe for him to come out of his bunker.
Yep. I had a cousin who is deaf because her mom was exposed to measles while pregnant with her. Measles isn't something to play around with. I have hearing loss due to ear infections associated with mumps. It's probably been bad enough to warrant hearing aids since I was a child but I got along so I didn't get them. Teachers just complained that I didn't pay attention and mom always told me to turn the TV/radio down. I have Bluetooth enabled hearing aids now. Cool.
From your site: "For every 1,000 children who get measles, one or two will die from it"
I wonder how many out of every 1000 children who get the vaccine die from it?
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