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PPS: More specifically, SSPE is a sequelae of infection with a strain of measles virus that contains the PEA motif (residues P64, E89, and especially A209) in the matrix protein. 9 out of the 10 gene sequenced wild-type measles virus strains contain that PEA motif, but the vaccine strains do not. The vaccine strains have an SKT motif (S64, K89, T209) instead.

Measles viruses with the SKT motif have never been isolated in cases of SSPE, and neither has the one wild-type strain which does not have the PEA motif
 (i.e., genotype B3 with PET).

So I'm not likely to concede that you are going to be killing a certain number of children a year via SSPE by giving them the measles vaccine. I would, however, like to be accurate in the predictions of how many would be likely to die from complications of measles infection, and for that I would first look at your reference for the number you gave. 
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You guys are arguing over a detail that is irrelevant. Even if the measles vaccine does kill 1/million people that get it. Measles is much more dangerous. Before the vaccine we had 3-4 million cases a year. So the number of deaths from measles each year was well in excess of 1,000 per year. Even if vaccine does kill 4 people a year that is much better than 1,000+ people dying from measles each year. Antivaxxers are incapable of understanding math apparently. [/quote]

This was the attitude towards vaccines until recent days. There is a gruesome calculus in that some are sacrificed for others in the hope that it all nets out.

But somewhere along the way vaccines became infallible and talk of trade offs were censored. Now many find it impossible that a vaccine could cause harm. 
But if that were so, then the men who built the system wouldn’t have carved out a special court system to stonewall those harmed by vaccines.[/quote]
Please. The vaccine compensation program exists in part because it’s so difficult for injured patients to prove causation in real court. Under the current system, all you need is an injury covered by the program, and you will be paid. You don’t need to do anything to prove that the vaccine caused your injury. That’s not how it works under regular tort law, so good luck getting any money if RFK abolishes the program and [b]you’re one of the rare people with a vaccine injury.[/b][/quote]

Which isn't going to be SSPE. You understand that now, correct?

Did you want to go over how many children will die of that without vaccinations?[/quote]

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