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Where on earth did this statistic come from?

I had measles as did everyone I knew when I was a child. There was no vaccine for measles, and it was not in any way a deadly disease. Everyone got it, and no one died.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics -- this is a case of statistics.

In a vaccinated population, very few healthy children will come down with measles. In developing countries, this statistic might be plausible, but that's because those &quot;healthy&quot; children suffer from malnutrition, parasites, poor hygiene, poor access to clean water, etc, all of which contribute to the death rate in these supposedly &quot;healthy&quot; children.

In America, well-nourished middle class children with no immune issues are not likely to die of measles ever. [/quote]

In a vaccinated population, very few healthy children will come down with measles BECAUSE THEY ARE VACCINATED.

And maybe nobody you know died of measles. But the actual true fact is that children did die of measles.

Do you want numbers? [b]400-500 deaths per year in the US in the decade before vaccination[/b]; 48,000 hospitalizations per year; 1,000 cases of chronic disability per year because of measles encephalitis. http://www.cdc.gov/measles/vaccination.html

Do you want an example of a child who died of measles? Google Roald Dahl measles.[/quote]

Where did you get this statistic? I looked all over the CDC website and couldn't find it. I did find this:

During January 1–August 24, 2013, a total of 159 cases were reported to CDC from 16 states and New York City (Figure 2). Patients ranged in age from 0 days to 61 years; 18 (11%) were aged &lt;12 months, 40 (25%) were aged 1–4 years, 58 (36%) were aged 5–19 years, and 43 (27%) were aged ?20 years. Among the 159 cases, 17 (11%) persons required hospitalization, including four patients diagnosed with pneumonia. No deaths were reported.

Among the 159 cases, 157 (99%) were import-associated, and two had an unknown source. Forty-two (26%) importations (23 returning U.S residents and 19 visitors to the United States) from 18 countries were reported, and 21 (50%) of the importations were from the WHO European Region. Genotypes identified to date are D8 (47 cases), B3 (six), H1 (four), D9 (three), and D4 (two).

Most cases were in persons who were unvaccinated (131 [82%]) or had unknown vaccination status (15 [9%]). Thirteen (8%) of the patients had been vaccinated, of whom three had received 2 doses of measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Among 140 U.S. residents who acquired measles, 117 (84%) were unvaccinated, and 11(8%) had unknown vaccination status. Of those who were unvaccinated, 92 (79%) had philosophical objections to vaccination, six (5%) had missed opportunities for vaccination, 15 (13%) occurred among infants aged &lt;12 months who were not eligible for vaccination, and for four (3%) the reason for no vaccination was unknown (Figure 3). Among the 21 U.S resident patients who traveled abroad and were aged ?6 months, 14 (67%) were unvaccinated, five (24%) had unknown vaccination status, and two had received 1 dose of MMR vaccine.

So, since 99 percent of the cases were import-associated, that means that unvaccinated Americans were NOT the cause of the outbreaks during January-August 2013. There were only 2 out of 149 cases that the cause of their infection was unknown. That means all those 147 cases originated outside the US, and none of those cases resulted in a spread of the virus within the US, with the possible exception of two cases, but there is not data connecting those two cases to any of the 147 cases that originated outside the US.

There's a lot of hysteria on this board about the horrors of people who choose not to vaccinate. But the facts I copied from the CDC website speak to the extremely low (probably nonexistent) risk nonvaccinated people pose to vaccinated individuals in the US.

Clearly, there is a risk of acquiring measles in other countries, so make sure you're vaccinated if you are traveling to a country where measles is prevalent.

Save your hysteria for fear of the Tea Partiers. They are the ones who pose a real threat to your health.

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