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[quote=Anonymous]
It is so terrible that people are willing to risk little babies for absolutely no reason at all.

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Pneumonia. As many as 1 out of every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia, the most common cause of death from measles in young children.

Encephalitis. About 1 child out of every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain). This can lead to convulsions and leave the child deaf or with intellectual disability.

Death. Nearly 1 to 3 of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from respiratory and neurologic complications.
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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a very rare, but fatal disease of the central nervous system. It results from a measles virus infection acquired earlier in life.
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SSPE generally develops 7 to 10 years after a person has measles, even though the person seems to have fully recovered from the illness.
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Among people who contracted measles during the resurgence in the United States in 1989 to 1991, 7 to 11 out of every 100,000 were estimated to be at risk for developing SSPE. [b]The risk of developing SSPE may be higher for a person who gets measles before they are 2 years of age.[/b]

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/signs-symptoms/index.html[/quote][/quote]

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